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A Charismatic Leader: Malcolm X

   

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TABLE OF CONTENTSTransformational Leadership and Charisma to Malcolm X............................................................................................3TASK 1...........................................................................................................................................................................3Transformational leadership......................................................................................................................................3TASK 2...........................................................................................................................................................................5Charisma....................................................................................................................................................................5Theory and practice...................................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................................................13
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Transformational Leadership and Charisma to Malcolm XTASK 1Transformational leadershipThe Transformational leadership (TL) refers to a style where both leader and his/ her follower use to workin coordination and leader tries to identify various requisite changes so that followers can have get inspiration foradopting changes. In this regard, Malcolm X can be represented as one of the best leaders who started a revolutionagainst government for black people. Malcolm had many qualities as per the transformational leadership likeactivism, good orator and his inspirational thoughts due to which he influenced a large number of people all acrossthe world. A leader has a number of qualities and attributes due to which he/ she becomes able to inspire people andall of them use to follow him/ her. As per Schein, (2010), a leader motivates their followers for all kinds of workbecause of which they become able to achieve their goals. The TL is very different from transactional leadershipwhere in later style, leader use to reward its followers on achieving any goal. The people were very influenced byMalcolm as he use to speak straight forward with all his followers. He was always very much clear in his mindabout his ideas which he always use to say while having conversation with his followers. MotivationSelznick, (2011) said that the transformational leaders are self motivated personswhich acts as a driving force for them and they take steps as per that motivation. Thisattribute worked well in case of Malcolm as well where he use to think and takeaction as per his will and by heart. Values According to Wheatley, (2011) the genuine leadership focuses towards ideas andstatements that are applied by a leader on his followers. These ideas incepts from aleader himself and acts as a driving force in him. This idea is then spread by leaderamong followers to inspire them and achieve their support. Malcolm also had samething where he used to present various ideas and thoughts with a clear meaning andunderstandable by his followers.MoralityGoleman, Boyatzis and McKee, (2013) states that leaders should be able to influencetheir followers through strong beliefs and morality. Leader should be internallymotivated and determined to achieve any goal. Due to the strong beliefs and ideaswhich were based on moral grounds, Malcolm became the leader of prison as wellwhere he lead his debating team. TrustBesides this, in the views of Zhang and Bartol, (2010), it is also necessary for a leaderto build trust among followers. A trustworthy relation of a leader with their followersalways takes them to a height of success with great number of followers supportinghis ideas. For this, a leader should be a good listener as well.EmotionalSpillane, (2012) asserts that emotional attitude of a leader leads to success as it givesfollowers feeling that leader understands their problem in better way. Thus, theybecome able to try and learn new things which also help in exploring wideperspectives of various things.
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