Comparing and Contrasting Transformational and Leader-Member Leadership Theory

COMPARING AND CONTRASTING TRANSFORMATIONAL AND LEADER-MEMBER
LEADERHIP THEORY 1
Comparing and contrasting Transformational and Leader-member exchange Leadership theories
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COMPARING AND CONTRASTING TRANSFORMATIONAL AND LEADER-MEMBER
LEADERHIP THEORY 2
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Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................... 3
Transformational leadership theory....................................................................................... 3
Advantages of transformational leadership theory.....................................................................3
Disadvantages of transformational leadership theory.................................................................4
Leader-member exchange Leadership theory...........................................................................5
Advantages of leader- member Leadership theory.....................................................................5
Disadvantages of leader-member leadership theory...................................................................5
Similarity between Transformational and Leader-member exchange Leadership theories....................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................... 6
References List............................................................................................................... 7

COMPARING AND CONTRASTING TRANSFORMATIONAL AND LEADER-MEMBER
LEADERHIP THEORY 3
Introduction
Leadership is the act of providing guidance and influencing individuals to actively work
in an effective and efficient way in order to achieve a mutual set goal. It also involves controlling
and coordinating activities in an organization to realize an objective. Over the past years, various
approaches have been developed to address leadership in organizations. In response to this,
various theories have been developed to enable the success of any kind of leadership in an
organization (Şahin, Gürbüz, and Şeşen, 2017 p.105-125). In this essay two leadership theories
will be discussed, compared and contrasted to define the best theory that has the highest
capability of enabling an organization to achieve their best set objective. The selected leadership
theories in this assignment include: Transformational and leader member exchange leadership
theories. The advantages and disadvantages of the mentioned theories will also be assessed to
determine the theory that will outdo the other theory. The assignment will also make a
conclusion on the best leadership theory among the selected two theories depending on the facts
from the essay.
Transformational leadership theory
This theory was introduced in 1978 by MacGregor Burns. The theory argues that
organizational achievements are well met when leaders have strong integrated capabilities of
influencing, motivating and empowering their junior followers towards the set organization goals
(Lorinkova, and Perry, 2017 p.163). For the transformational leadership theory to occur, there
must be a leader and a group of individuals who have the zeal of being transformed from one
stage to another by using the same resources that are available in an organization. Leader’s
morals and values at work are also validated and emphasized in this theory to ensure its
effectiveness towards the organizational objectives The theory can be applied in different
departments, divisions or even teams of a particular organization. In as much as the
transformational leadership theory is praised to be the best theory that organizations embrace, the
theory has various advantages and disadvantages as outlined below.
Advantages of transformational leadership theory
Although change is inevitable in most organization, transformational leadership theory
emphasizes on leaders taking risks that in turn contributes to major positive changes to an
organization. This theory is characterized with a clear definitions concerning the direction of an
organization which enables the leaders to highly influence their followers towards a clears set