Comparison of Transformational Leadership and Leader-Member Exchange

LEADERSHIP METHODS 1
Leadership
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LEADERSHIP METHODS 2
Table of contents.
Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................3
A Comparison of transformation leadership theory and the leader-member exchange theory............3
1. Decision making.............................................................................................................................3
Advantage of transformational in decision making.......................................................................4
Disadvantages of transformational in decision making.................................................................4
Advantages of LMX in decision making..........................................................................................4
Disadvantage of LMX in decision making.......................................................................................4
2. Working as a team.....................................................................................................................5
Advantages of LMX in teamwork...................................................................................................5
Disadvantages LMX in teamwork...................................................................................................5
Advantage transformational..........................................................................................................6
Disadvantages of transformational................................................................................................6
3. Efficiency and work performance..............................................................................................6
Advantages of LMX in work performance......................................................................................6
Disadvantage of LMX in work performance...................................................................................6
Advantage of transformational in work performance...................................................................7
Disadvantage of transformational in work perfomance................................................................7
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................7
References.............................................................................................................................................7

LEADERSHIP METHODS 3
Introduction
Leadership can be referred to as the ability of a person to guide persons or groups in an
organization. Leaders are responsible for making important decisions when carrying out their
task where every other member of the team has to follow. There are two types of leadership
methods based on two theories: the leader-member-exchange theory and the transformation
leadership theory. The leader-member-exchange theory is a type of leadership where
employees are involved in decision making and all work together with the leader as a team.
Transformation leadership theory has the leader making decisions and employees follows, it
doesn’t involve working as a group. (Schein, 2017).
A Comparison of transformational-leadership-theory
and the leader-member-exchange theory.
Transformation and leader-member exchange theory could be compared and contrasted in
many ways such as: representations used by the respective theories, the connection between
administrators and workers and the working environment created by each, some of
comparisons are:
1. Decision making.
Leaders using transformational leadership method make decisions solely, they do not
include their staffs in making any decision including those maters that directly touch
the employees. This method, leaders are the most powerful in the organization, they
make all decisions, assign tasks to employee and supervising them in the process of
work (Turnnidge and Côté, 2018). This kind manager is only interested in the
profitability of the organization and tend to care less about the wellbeing of workers.
They focus on saving time and thus do not embrace teamwork forgetting that working
as a team is more effective and efficient as compared to working individually. This
method has benefits and shortcomings (Martin, 2016).