Transformational Leadership: Impact and Practice

This assignment delves into the concept of transformational leadership, focusing on its impact on organizational performance. It analyzes key aspects like intelligence, personality traits, and emotional intelligence as they relate to effective transformational leadership. The assignment also investigates the relationship between transformational leadership styles and managerial effectiveness within diverse work environments.

Running head: LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
Personal Leadership Profile: The leader in me (Assessment 2)
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Personal Leadership and Profile
Identification of strengths and weaknesses forms the basis of the foundation of becoming
a successful and great leader. It refers to the ability to define a certain direction for personal life
as well as leadership, and move in that direction with clarity and consistence (Yukl, 2012). Being
clear on personal values, opinions and beliefs, and remaining grounded are imperative to the
pathway of becoming an efficient leader. Building on the strength and improving areas of
weakness, without being defensive and embarrassed are some of the key qualities of an effective
leader. Self-assessment and monitoring helped me recognize my abilities and helped me gain a
deeper understanding of my values, motives and actions (Batool, 2013). This assignment will
illustrate my leadership capabilities and will support the leadership styles I demonstrate using
relevant literatures.
Discussion
Personality characteristics
Core values of leadership involve certain guiding principles that play an essential role in
our lives. These values facilitate and guide others in making a positive difference in personal
lives, which in turn contributes to a larger good. Some of the most essential values that I
manifest are related to demonstration of respect, integrity, and trust. A culture of mutual respect
is vital owing to the fact that it helps people from belonging to different backgrounds come
forward and work together as a team (Klar & Brewer, 2013). Failure to demonstrate respect often
makes it difficult for the most secured people as well to bring about changes and innovation
(Carter & Greer, 2013). I am respectful towards all my colleagues and peers as it helps in
recognizing their basic needs and enhances the overall performance. I try to show respect

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towards all regardless of their cultural or linguistic backgrounds by evoking a positive
conversation with them. I am an active listener and always demonstrate an interest in hearing the
views and perspectives of the people surrounding me. This improves provisions for an effective
conversation and most often results in a satisfying and productive dialogue.
I understand that respect and unquestionable integrity is fundamental to human
relationship and therefore implement it in real-time settings. I try to ensure a long-term
commitment to do the right practice, regardless of the circumstances and try not to break the trust
of people who confide in me. My values make me demonstrate transparency and fairness in all
situations. On the other hand, my capability to motivate and inspire my colleagues and peers is
based on trust. Display of a passionate behavior towards my work, keeping promises and
constantly communicating with others makes me trustworthy. However, I have some weaknesses
that often create hindrances in my pathway of becoming an efficient leader. Most often I display
lack of courage. Absence of courage commonly results in reduced innovations and sales due to
failure to take unpopular and bold decisions (Czech & Forward, 2013). Failure to provide regular
feedback and rewarding the team members for a good performance are some of the weaknesses.
These directly influence team productivity.
Leadership skills are regarded as an essential component that helps in taking thoughtful
decisions about the goals and mission of the organization. It also facilitates allocation of
adequate resources for achieving the intended directives (Effelsberg, Solga & Gurt, 2014). Some
of the leadership skills that I demonstrate are namely, non-verbal communication, relationship
building, financial management and directing others. Being an efficient communicator through
the use of gestures and body language conveys more than words and often helps to make the
receiver understand the exact meaning of what is being communicated (Kaslow, Falender &

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Grus, 2012). Formulating direction for others and articulating the directions in a way that the
colleagues and subordinates are clear on the expectations they are required to meet is an
important leadership attribute. Thus, this skill enables me to foster relationship with others and
helps in building the team. I am also able to understand the implications of the financial
decisions and enable me to utilise the financial information for improving performance. Morals
and ethics are the standards that define good and bad behaviour of the employees and
management in an organization (Eddy, 2012). I always abide by the regulations and laws,
established by the government and never promise more than what can be achieved or delivered. I
also try not to blame others due to poor financial results or failures.
Leadership perspectives
These include competency, implicit, transformational, contingency and behavioural
perspectives. The competency or trait perspective is the oldest and illustrates the traits of
effective leaders. It helps in identifying set of values, abilities and personality traits that make a
successful leader (Tourish, 2013). On the other hand, the behavioral perspective identifies
behaviours that are demonstrated by effective leaders. While, people-oriented leaders look out
for the welfare of all members, task-oriented leaders only focus on the job at hand. The
contingency perspective focuses on the importance of a particular situation in determining the
leadership style (Furtner, Baldegger & Rauthmann, 2013). It states that a leader should be
directive, achievement-oriented, supportive and participative for good outcomes. In addition, the
transformational perspective looks at the way by which efficient leaders transform their teams by
inspiring the employees to strive for a clear vision. They help in building commitment towards
accomplishing the vision or goal.

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Leadership style
There are different types of leadership styles that exist at workplaces. The laissez-faire
leadership style encompasses lack of supervision of employees and such leaders fail to provide
feedback on a regular basis. This is commonly exhibited by trained and highly experienced
leaders who require little supervision and hinders productivity (Furtner, Baldegger &
Rauthmann, 2013). Failure to demonstrate supervision efforts leads to increasing costs. On the
other hand, transactional leaders receive tasks to perform and provide punishments or rewards to
the coworkers based on their performance. Predetermined goals are set by the managers and
team members that make them follow a specific direction to accomplish the intended goals
(McCleskey, 2014). The transformational and participative styles of leadership depend on high
communication skills and input from peers and team members.
Additionally, autocratic leadership creates provisions for the managers to make decisions
without considering input from others (Avolio & Yammarino, 2013). Furthermore, charismatic
leaders infuse high enthusiasm and energy in the team and help in boosting performance (Rast
III, Hogg & Giessner, 2013). Based on the values, beliefs and skills that I demonstrate, it can be
stated that I manifest styles of transformational leadership. I engage in effective communication
with my coworkers and subordinates that help identification of the areas that need amendment.
Therefore, it helps me to create a vision that eventually guides a change. Display of this
leadership style enhances motivation and boosts our morale. This creates a positive impact on
job performance and increases interest in the work. It helps me emphasise on intrinsic
motivation. My capability of demonstrating excellent verbal and non-verbal communication
skills helps in conveying a clear vision of the future and of the intended goals. This directly
influences the team members to portray a sense of admiration and respect towards me. My keen

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observation power facilitates gaining the trust and respect of the team members, which in turn
inspires all to emulate the good qualities in practice.
5 aspects that need development
 Sharing unpopular decisions and providing tough feedbacks will help in bringing about
innovations and new ideas, in place of the existing ones.
 Exchanging feedbacks with team members for creating an environment that will support
strong performance and meeting the intended expectations and goals
 Intangible reward in the form of employee recognition, or tangible ones such as,
monetary bonus should be conferred on employees to influence their behaviour. This will
act as a form of appraisal and will provide opportunities to improve performance
 Improving emotional intelligence will lead to important insights on self and will allow in
balancing feelings. This will facilitate having a sound situational awareness for leading a
team.
 Self-regulation also needs improvement. It will encompass redirection or control of
disruptive emotions and will assist in maintaining a calm composure during stressful
situations.
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Location
REFERENCING
:
Hunter et al.,
(2013)
CONTEXT:
Location – USA
Organisation-
Baylor
University,
Hankamer
School of
Business,
Department of
Management
and
Entrepreneurship
and University
of Houston
What is this
article/book
about?
The objective
of the study
was to test the
relationship
between
servant
leadership,
personality,
organisational
outcomes and
critical
followers.
Identify key themes that
relate to your leadership
exercise and style of
leadership
The key theme of the
study was based on the
fact that the leaders most
often observe their
followers while
demonstrating helping
behaviors such as, actively
praising the coworkers.
However, they often fail to
utilise the opportunities of
observing the followers
for showing concern, as
these conversations take
place in private.
What questions does this
make you ask?
This makes me reflect on
How relevant is this
reference:
To my leadership style
and approach?
Although I demonstrate
transformational
leadership skills and
communicate with my co-
workers to identify key
areas for amendments, I
display lack of appraisal
and care for the co-
workers.
How relevant is this to my
leadership style and to my
profile?
Although I try to engage in
effective conversations
with all my co-workers in

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Participants- 224
stores that
included 425
followers, 40
regional
managers and
110 store
managers
Method- 3
separate surveys
were conducted
servant
leadership, store
performance and
sales bevahiour
my practice and question
whether I spend adequate
time in conversing with
my colleagues and co-
workers at work. I try to
analyse my ability of
showing respect,
compassion and care
towards my co-workers.
group discussions, I often
fail to demonstrate a
caring attitude and do not
get time to interact with
them in private.
What messages and/or
lessons can be learnt from
this article about my
leadership style?
Thus, it helps me learn
that in addition to
demonstrating effective
communication skills for
working towards a
directed goal, I also need
to reciprocate a helping
behaviour.

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REFERENCING
:
Braun, Peus,
Weisweiler &
Frey (2013)
CONTEXT:
Location –
Germany
Organisation-
Ludwig-
Maximilians-
Universität
München,
Technische
Universität
München
Participants- 360
employees and
What is this
article/book
about?
The article
aimed to fill in
the leadership
gaps by
analyzing
effects of
transformationa
l leadership on
trust building
in supervisor,
team
performance
and job
satisfaction.
Identify key themes that
relate to your leadership
exercise and style of
leadership
Transformational
leadership helps in
bringing desired outcomes
for all individuals due to
the fact that all
organizations have a team-
based structure and need
leaders for motivating the
employees by building
their trust.
What questions does this
make you ask?
I reflected whether my
leadership style is able to
improve job satisfaction
among my co-workers and
if I display good
How relevant is this
reference:
To my leadership style
and approach?
It is quite relevant to my
transformational
leadership style as the
research helped me in
identifying the areas that
can be improved for
increasing my
trustworthiness among the
co-workers and also
helped me understand my
role in increasing
employee job satisfaction.
How relevant is this to my
leadership style and to my
profile?
It is of extreme relevance
as it helped me realise that

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their supervisors
Method-
Surveys were
conducted to
measure
transformational
leadership
behaviour of the
supervisors,
perceptions of
trust on them
and individual
job satisfaction
leadership qualities that
make the employees trust
me.
trust in the team as well as
the supervisor helps in
mediating job satisfaction
and individual perceptions
on transformational
leadership.
What messages and/or
lessons can be learnt from
this article about my
leadership style?
I learnt that supervisors or
leaders should reflect on
the individual and team
perceptions on their
behavior to facilitate
transformational
leadership. Supervisors
need to pay attention for
establishing trust and this
leadership style plays an
important role in hiring,
promoting or training.

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REFERENCING
:
Cavazotte,
Moreno &
Hickmann
(2012)
CONTEXT:
Location- Brazil
Organisation-
Brazilian
company
operating in
energy sector
Participants- 134
middle level
managers and
their
subbordinates
What is this
article/book
about?
The article
investigated the
effects of
personality
traits,
intelligence and
emotional
intelligence on
performance of
transformationa
l leaders in an
organisation.
Identify key themes that
relate to your leadership
exercise and style of
leadership
Transformational
leadership acts as an
essential factor in the field
of organisational science
and exerts an influence on
the efficiency of an
organisation.
What questions does this
make you ask?
It made me ask myself if I
am able to make complete
use of my intelligence and
experience in the
organisation while
working with the team. I
also reflected whether my
emotional intelligence
How relevant is this
reference:
To my leadership style
and approach?
It is quite relevant to my
approach since I also
demonstrate a
transformational
leadership style. The fact
that conscientiousness
exerts a direct influence on
leadership effectiveness
helped me to identify areas
that needed improvement
in my practice.
How relevant is this to my
leadership style and to my
profile?
It helped me realise that I
need to control my
emotional intelligence

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Method-
Electronic
questionnaires
were used to
collect data on 7
variables,
followed by
assessment of all
subordinates on
the role of their
leaders.
creates any negative
impact on team
performance.
such as, thinking and
behaviour to facilitate
accomplishment of the
intended goals in the team.
What messages and/or
lessons can be learnt from
this article about my
leadership style?
I learnt that emotional
awareness, harnessing
them to tasks, problem
solving skills can create
negative impacts on the
team performance, if not
utilised adequately. Thus, I
realised that my role as a
transformational leader
would require effective
demonstration of
neuroticism, openness,
agreeableness,
extraversion and

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emotional intelligence.
REFERENCING
:
Bellé (2013)
CONTEXT:
Location- Italy
Organisation-
Local health
authority, Italy
Participants- 138
nurses
Method- 138
recently hired
nurses were
randomised to 6
different groups
for attending
sessions such as,
What is this
article/book
about?
The article
aimed to
enhance effects
of
transformationa
l leadership on
the
performance of
recently hired
nursing
employees by
exploring the
potential of
extra task job
characteristics.
Identify key themes that
relate to your leadership
exercise and style of
leadership
Transformational
leadership is one of the
most important factors
responsible for directly
motivating action, thereby
improving employee
performance. It
encompasses the
behavioural dimensions of
idealized influence,
inspirational motivation,
individualized
consideration and
intellectual stimulation.
What questions does this
make you ask?
It made me question
How relevant is this
reference:
To my leadership style
and approach?
It is relevant to my
leadership approach as it
helped in ascertaining the
fact that self-persuasion
intervention and
beneficiary contact among
leaders working in the
public and private sector
can be effectively utilized
for turning the directed
goals and visions to
tangible reality.
How relevant is this to my
leadership style and to my
profile?
Its relevance lies in the
fact that it helped in

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self persuasion
intervention and
beneficiary
contact
whether my leadership
qualities are able to
improve the performance
of my co-workers and
colleagues. I also
evaluated if I am giving in
my best possible skills and
leadership qualities during
administration.
establishing the role of the
aforementioned
interventions for
enhancing the
performance effects due to
transformational
leadership. Thus, it
provided me with an idea
of the skills that need to be
implemented for
increasing efficiency.
What messages and/or
lessons can be learnt from
this article about my
leadership style?
It helped me learn that my
demonstration of self
persuasion and beneficiary
contact will help in
improving pro-social
impact and will directly
enhance job performance.

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REFERENCING
:
García-Morales,
Jiménez-
Barrionuevo &
Gutiérrez-
Gutiérrez (2012)
CONTEXT:
Location- Spain
Organisation-
Spanish
automobile and
chemical firms
Participants-
CEOs of
randomly
selected 1000
organisations
Method- Mailed
surveys were
What is this
article/book
about?
This research
involved
randomisation
of CEOs of
automobile and
chemical firms
who were made
to complete
survey
questionnaires
to investigate
the impact of
transformationa
l leadership on
the
performance of
an
organisation.
Identify key themes that
relate to your leadership
exercise and style of
leadership
Transformational
leadership enhances
collective interest
consciousness among
the members of an
organization and
establishes emotional links
between the leader and
followers. It also
promotes intellectual
simulation through
charisma and inspiration.
What questions does this
make you ask?
It made me ask myself if I
am able to express
charismatic nature and
directly inspire my co-
How relevant is this
reference:
To my leadership style
and approach?
It is relevant to my
leadership role as my
transformational
leadership approach
involves interaction with
all the co-workers for
accomplishing the
intended goals. If I am not
able to utilise my charisma
in motivating them, it may
result in poor job
satisfaction and decrease
performance.
How relevant is this to my
leadership style and to my
profile?
It is extremely relevant to
my leadership style as it

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sent to the
participants
followed by
random
sampling and
stratification.
The responses
were measured
for analysing
transformational
leadership
effects.
workers in order to
improve their
performance.
helped me realise the
strategic role of
organisational innovation
and learning on employee
performance.
What messages and/or
lessons can be learnt from
this article about my
leadership style?
I understood that it is
imperative to my role as a
leader for transferring
knowledge through
organisational learning. I
also realised that there is a
need to be courageous for
suggesting innovations
that can greatly improve
organisation performance.
REFERENCING
:
What is this
article/book
Identify key themes that
relate to your leadership
exercise and style of
How relevant is this
reference:
To my leadership style