Transactional leadership

This paper examines contemporary leadership styles used within organizations and their impact upon the risk of burnout among human service workers. Specifically, the paper focuses upon research drawn from the nursing literature to identify styles most effective in promoting a positive work environment. Transactional leadership and laissez-faire leadership both appear to promote the negative conditions that contribute to employee burnout. In contrast, two leadership styles that appear…

2.2.0 Linking Leadership to Employee Creativity: A Study of Indian R&D Laboratories 2.2.1 Reference Gupta, V., Singh, S., Kumar, S., and Bhattacharya, A. (2012) ‘Linking Leadership to Employee Creativity: A Study of Indian R&D Laboratories’, The Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 120-136. 2.2.2 Research Question How do leader behaviors promote individual employee creativity? 2.2.3 Methodology The first part of the study was about in-depth interviews in five public R&D…

LEADERSHIP APPROACH The role leadership plays in change management is enormous bearing in mind the fact that leaders set the pace and direction of the project. Project leaders requires the skill to plan, mitigate risks and implement projects (Gerardi, 2011). Dickson and Tholl (2014) defines leadership as “the collective capacity of an individual or group to influence people to work together to achieve a common constructive purpose”. This definition implies that leading people may require a…

Laissez-Faire Definition: The laissez faire leadership style is not supervising and controlling people how are employed. (Jonson 2008) Adv • one of the advantages of laissez-faire is that it gives the chance to people to work in every way they want so that they can be productive.(money-zine,2015) • B • d • D DisAdv • when people are given to much freedom, chaos can be created so production falls and so it can be said that this kind of leadership is also not very successful.(Johnson,2008) • They…

originally expected, exudes self-confidence, and conveys an inner strength. In transformational leadership leaders use individual consideration and treat each staff differently according to their individual needs and capabilities (Smith, 2015). However managers in Dhiraagu treat their staff equally and the needs are provided in the best interest of the staff (Dhiraagu, 2016). Transactional leadership focuses on the exchanges that occur between leaders and followers (Bass 1985; 1990; 2000; 2008;…

When it comes to leadership styles, there are many that are utilized within private organizations and public institutions such as the US government. The 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, embodied many of these styles, and his examples of leadership are used today among managers and supervisors to the point where managers contrast and compare the characteristics of themselves with those of Theodore Roosevelt. Regarding the many leadership styles, there is…

Internal strengths include: 1) the facility provides preventative care. 2) The facility provides excellent care to patients evident in patient satisfaction surveys. 3) The facility has “happy staff” by providing the best medical benefits and pay. 4) Facility is known as a “one-shop-stop” a patient can get all their needs met in one building (lab work, pharmacy, and doctor appointments). 5) Nursing staff is eager to try new opportunities and progress in their learning. The internal…

arrogant of management style (Allio, 2012). Jobs was fostered a culture of everyone sharing the same purpose and clear vision in the Apple Company. However, to evaluate the leadership style of Steve Jobs, the transactional and transformational leadership theory is applied. The aspects which claim that Jobs shows the sign of transactional is due to the establishment of strategy towards the main goal of the Apple Company. Even though making profit would be great, but Jobs claimed that the purpose…

deficiencies I find both are capable of leadership roles. Yet, I feel each have deficiencies that could benefit from idealized influence, inspired motivation, intellectual stimulation, individual considerations and support associated with the transformational leadership approach. I see from Bill’s level of commitment to the organization, respectful interactions and diligence towards goals and outcomes, he becomes an ideal; representative of transactional leadership and candidate for the…

Regardless of whatever experiences people have gained in life, a way of leadership theory and a leader are viewed in educational setting totally depends on the individual. Moreover, Bolden, R., Gosling, J., Marturano, A., and Dennison, P. (June, 2003) have pointed out that majority of evolutions of leadership theory have shifted for decades from a theory of "Great Man" to "Transformational" theory. A study of leadership theory was and is always an interesting topic and it has attracted many…