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Running head: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSTransformational Leadership Places an Overemphasis on Charisma and PersonalityName of the Student:Name of the University:Author’s Note:

1INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSIntroductionThe leaders following transformational leadership always take visionary position andinspire their followers to follow their visions. Such leaders are highly flexible in nature and canmake high level of emotional bonding with their followers through using their emotionalintelligence. The charisma and personality of the transformational leaders always attract theirfollowers and encourage them to imitate their leadership approach. Moreover, transformationalleadership places an overemphasis on charisma and personality. The study will discuss thematter transformational leadership places an overemphasis on charisma and personality.Furthermore, throughout the study, it will also set several evidences of transformationalleadership based on the topic. DiscussionTransformational leadership is a kind of leadership style, where leaders work incollaboration with the subordinates for identifying the required organisational change, creatingvision to guide changes and executing the changes in tandem with the committed organisationalmembers. In this highly competitive business environment, creating high performance workforcehas become highly important. However, organisational leaders must have to inspire theorganisational members for encouraging them towards high performance. According toBreevaart et al., (2014), transformational leaders have high level of inspirational power, whichcan motivate the employees towards increasing productivity. On the other hand, Dong et al.,(2017) opined that transformational leadership always delegate some power on the employees oncompleting their work in their own way. Moreover, the employees are valued with a sense ofownership with delegation of power on them. In this way, the followers can better solve their

2INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSproblem individually and in innovative way. Moreover, transformational leadership places anoveremphasis on their charisma and personality. Transformational leaders have high level of charismatic power towards inspiring andmotivating the followers towards better performance. Moreover, with high level of charismaticpower, transformational leaders can act as the role model for their followers. Van der Voet,(2014) pointed out that the charismatic attributes of the transformational leaders attracts thefollowers and they are more likely to imitate and follow the qualities of their leaders towardsgetting high level of achievement. The self-concept theory of charismatic leaders demonstratesthe power of charisma within the leaders enable them to build strong connection between thefollower’s self-concept and the leaders, the group led by the leaders and their collective vision(Wang & Howell, 2012). According to Stoker et al., (2012), transformational leaders have strong visionary power,which enable them to build effective organisational vision based on long term organisationalperspectives. The power of building clear and consistent organisational vision motivates thefollowers to be attracted to those visions. Furthermore, Herman and Chiu, (2014) stated thattransformational leaders always believe in clear communication of organisational vision with thefollowers. Such clear communication vision enhances the value of the followers and theybecome highly encouraged towards fulfilling those organisational visions for overallorganisational success. While considering the example of Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google Inc,it can be seen that the leader always set clear and challenging vision for getting high level ofsuccess. Moreover, the leader also communicates their clear vision and role among theemployees (Zhang et al., 2015). In this way, the employees are highly encouraged to align theireffort with the organisational vision.

3INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSNijstad et al., (2014) pointed out that transformational leaders have strong capability toknow their followers and motivate them along their inner motivational drive. As per the Theoryof Relational Self, the individual’s basic needs of autonomy, competencies, mastery andmeaning are the fundamental motives for building close relationship with significant others.Moreover, relational identification builds the foundation of autonomy and empowerment amongthe employees (Wang, X. H. F., & Howell, 2012). According to Tyssen et al., (2014), transformational leaders have strong emotionalintelligence, which enable them towards recognizing the core and individual needs and demandsof their followers. In this way, these leaders are highly capable of encouraging their followerstowards better performance through satisfying the individual needs of the employees. On theother hand, AttachmentTheory suggests that individuals are only capable of identifying theirfull potential, when they are confident that there are some trusted persons, who will trulyappreciate their value. Moreover, the individuals are highly empowered and autonomous, whenthey are attached to and supported by trusted person. In this context, transformational leaders arehighly focused on demonstrating accountability. Moreover, being highly accountable, thetransformational leaders always share important organisational information with their followerstransparently. In this way, these leaders can effectively build trusted relationship with theirimmediate followers. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook is a right and effective exampleof transformational leader. The success of his organisation is largely dependent on hisaccountable and open approach towards welcoming the innovative ideas of their followers(McCleskey, 2014). The organisation has become able of foster high level of innovation at alllevel of their organisation and built uniqueness in the market.

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