Leadership & team management

1. Transformational leadership

2. Transformational leadership
• Transformative leadership’s goal is to
“transform” people and organizations in a
literal sense – to change them in mind and
heart; enlarge vision, insight, and
understanding; clarify purposes; make
behavior congruent with beliefs, principles, or
values; and bring about changes that are
permanent, self-perpetuating, and
momentum building.”

3. • TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP is a leadership
style that creates valuable and positive change
in followers. A transformative leader focuses
on transforming others to help each other, to
look out for each other, to be encouraging and
harmonious and to look out for the
organization as a whole. In this leadership,
the leader enhances the motivation, morale
and performance of the follower, group or
team.

4. Elements of transformational
leadership
Create a strategic vision
• Depiction of company’s attractive future
motivates and bonds employees Leader
champions the vision
Communicate the vision
• Frame message around a grand purpose.
Create a shared mental model of the
future.Use symbols, metaphors, symbols

5. Model the vision
• Walk the talk
• Symbolize/demonstrate the vision through
behavior
• Builds employee trust in the leader
Build commitment to the vision
• Increased through communicating and modeling
the vision
• Increased through employee involvement in
shaping the shared vision

6. Evaluating transformational leaders
Transformational leadership is important
• Higher employee satisfaction, performance, org
citizenship, creativity
Transformational leadership limitations
• Some models have circular logic
• Transformational leaders defined by their success
rather than behavior (Result: those models have no
predictive value)
• Universal theory
• Need a contingency-oriented theory
• Recognize differences across cultures

7. Transactional leaders
• Transactional leadership occurs when leaders
and followers are in an exchange relationship
in order to get needs met.
• Transactional Leadership is an exchange relationship
that is mutually beneficial to leader and followers
and built around the modal values such as honesty
and fairness.

9. • Managing – achieving current objectives more
efficiently
• link job performance to rewards
• ensure employees have necessary resources
• Relates to contingency leadership theories
(e.g. path-goal)