Annotated Bibliography: Scholarly Business Communication

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Choudhary, A. I., Akhtar, S. A., & Zaheer, A. (2013). Impact of Transformational and Servant
Leadership on Organizational Performance . Journal of Business Ethics, 433 440.
The authors of this journal article are working towards the realization of the influences of
relative leadership “transformational and servant leadership” in an organization to the
performance outcomes of the organization. The research was to help in identification of the best
leadership style in business.
The authors used sampling method where they took a sample of one hundred and fifty-
five individuals from the profit-oriented service sectors of Pakistan. The authors used a
quantitative research as well as questionnaire to collect data. The researchers personally
administered the polls to the sampled individuals from telecommunication, hotels and banking
sectors of Pakistan. Each out of the four hundred individuals who were selected respondent to the
questionnaire but only 155 answered questionnaires were taken for analysis. Majorly, managers
of the service sectors were chosen for the research, but a few top executives were also included.
Non-probability sampling technique was used in this survey. This was selected based on
the nature of the study. Only experienced individuals who knew a lot about leadership styles
were considered in the research. After the investigation, a five-point Likert scale was used to
evaluate the responses where one represented strongly agree and five represented strongly
disagree.
Further research will continue to give additional information about ethical leadership.
The effectiveness of performance of an organization will keep being the basis for the evolution
of any organizations leadership. The authors were able to find that exceptional leadership cannot

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heighten the performance of any organization. Any profit driven organization requires
transformational leadership. This is due to its good relationship with organizational learning.
In conclusion, two ethical leadership styles were empirically related to the performance
and organizational learning. There is a close relationship between transformational leadership
and servant. This is because they have a positive impact on followers. They empower and
encourage them towards positive performance. Subordinates are also given a chance to articulate
their issues. Thus the two style exhibit a successful leadership.
Present organizations are very complicated. Therefore dynamic leadership is in entire
need to enable successful operation of the businesses. Servant leadership as well as the
transformational one is flexible. The authors of this research found out that transformational is
much helpful to an organization than the servant leadership. There is a need for the managers of
any organization to maintain proper communication with their employees. This improves the
performance of the organizations as articulated by the authors of this article.
Carter, M. Z., Armenakis, A. A., Feild, H., & Mossholder, K. (2013). Transformational
leadership, relationship quality, and employee performance during continuous
incremental organizational change. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 942-958.
Every organization requires a replacement for it to thrive well. Organizations survive
competition by embracing change. The authors of this article strived to investigate the influence
of "team-focused transformational leadership on the performance of employees at the lower
levels of the organization since change is a very critical part of the organization's operations.
Secondly, the survey aimed at examining if change context has any impact on relationship
quality on the outcomes of change. As the changing context continues continuously to increase,