Transactional leadership

Brady. Elon Musk is a transformational leader. He is an entrepreneur, engineer, investor, and inventor. Some of his well-known attributions is with SpaceX, PayPal, SolarCity, and Tesla Inc. Musk is one of the wealthiest people in the world. His leadership goals are to revolve his visions to change the world’s humanity. He supports sustainable energy production and consumption to reduce global warming. Including, the risk of human extinction by making life multiplanetary and a high-speed…

Introduction: In reflecting on effective leaders over the last twenty one years of nursing, several leaders and mentors have been a positive influence. I have worked as a registered nurse and unit coordinator in Canada and USA. The individuals who have mirrored successful leaders are my mother and a past labor and delivery manager. Both have proved successful motivators and influential in my life and career. I have been inspired by their career goals and they have helped guide me through many…

I believe that management control and leadership go hand in hand, because a part of successful leadership is having the correct balance of control over the team and situation. My philosophy on management control would be for a manger to be firmly in control, and to delegate authority and trust when appropriate. In any case of management control, I would follow the Tannenbaum and Schmidt Continuum. It is a model of leadership theory that demonstrates the relationship between a manager’s…

The leader that I chose to interview is a coworker of mine. Her name is Trina Ingalls and she is a registered nurse and also has her MSN/ED credentials. She works in the nursing department with me, her title is the Director of Nursing Clinical Lab. I had a lot of leaders within my department to interview whom of which are all registered nurses that specialize in different areas within the nursing profession. I’m am privileged to be able to work with each and every one of them and to learn from…

Transformational leadership theory was further developed by Bass in 1985. Bass developed his doctrine of transformational leadership based on the preliminary results obtained in a survey of 198 military officers in The United States, who was required to evaluate their supervisors through the “Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire Form 1” (Bass, Waldman, & Avolio, 1987). Bass's doctrine originated in the Burns empirical investigation (1978), which found that leadership can be understood in terms…

leader. The stereotypical characteristics of the female gender, sugar and spice and everything nice, seems to point to women as having a more transformational leadership style. J. E. Wells’ et al. (2014) research found that ‘transformational leaders have been noted to be more congruent with stereotypical feminine gender roles, while transactional leaders have been associated with stereotypical masculine gender roles” (Wells, Welty Peachey, Walker, & Department of Sport Management Florida State…

What is leadership. Many studies have researched leadership and its attributes that influence workforce participation, involvement, job satisfaction, productivity, and goal achievement. Within an organization, leadership is the ability to provide direction, enact plans, and influence and motivate people towards outcomes. A central idea of leadership is to satisfy the psychological needs of a follower, because a leader’s ability to act as role model, support, empower, and inspire are effective…

Organizational culture depicts how individuals in an organization behave, their values, mission and vision. An ethical organizational culture needs to have trust, openness, objectivity, communication and most importantly transparency. Ethics in an organization can be viewed as Ethics of Values or Ethics of Compliance. The values approach is more liberal and focuses on expected behavior with high standard while the compliance approach is more rigid and focuses on how people are required to…

This incentivises the interns. This style of leadership is based on an employee achieving specific goals and then being rewarded for achieving those goals. 1.2 Theoretical Component of Management and Leadership: In a global economy that is continuously changing and evolving management must have an ability to grow, change and adapt within their environments i.e. Micro, Macro and Market environments. Management with their specific style of leadership must create calm in an environment of chaos,…

permeate the school, leadership. It is the leadership that will determine the direction of the school, the handling of the teachers from evaluation and training to hiring, the student achievement through instruction, the management of the school facilities, and the involvement of the community. Okcu plainly states, "One of the most significant elements of effective schools is school administrators and their leadership styles." (2014, p.2163) There are a variety leadership styles that support…