Leadership Styles and Employee Motivation in Transactional Type of Leadership

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Leadership Styles
Name
Institution

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Introduction
For an institution to do well in its activities, there must be an effective leader to guide the
proceedings. There are different styles of leadership that are practiced in various institutions.
Some of these styles include autocratic leadership, laissez-faire leadership, transformative
leadership, transactional leadership, and bureaucratic leadership among others (Cunningham,
Salomone, & Wielgus, 2015). The leader can apply one style of leadership or even combine
two or more different styles. For a leader to be successful in his operations, he or she should be
inspiring to his employees. He should encourage productivity and creativity among his
employees. Some leaders, however, are ineffective in their work because they use a leadership
style that does not relate with their institution or with the employees.
The type of leadership Described
Wassmiah is a great leader who is in control of all the employees under his management.
He uses a transactional style of leadership to manage his employees. Wassmiah maintains the
individual performance of the employees by supervising them and setting for the goals to achieve
at a stipulated time. His primary focus is to bring success to the institution. That is why he sets
short term goals that are achievable. The short term goals set are less frightening to achieve.
Therefore, the employees work hard to obtain the rewards that are attached to attaining the goals.
Rewarding the best performing employee is a practice found in a transactional type of leadership.
Additionally, Wassmiah oversees all the activities in the organization. He comes up with
the roles that the employees should play without consulting them. He clearly describes the
responsibility each employee should engage in hence minimizing cases of disagreements in the
institution. All the time, the employees are under the supervision and cannot work responsively
without being supervised.

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Advantages of Transactional Leadership
Transactional leadership is the best type of leadership for institutions with critical
structures. Using transactional leadership helps benefit the organization in various ways. The
employees who perform best in this type of leadership are awarded. Awards motivate them to
continue working in the organization (Zareen, Razzaq, & Mujtaba, 2015). The rest of the
employees also get motivated to work hard to get recognized and awarded. Secondly, short term
goals set are less challenging to overcome. These goals are easy to fulfill hence achieved
quickly. In the case of wassmiah, he sets short-term goals that are easily achievable. The
employees get motivated to meet them in the set time so that they can get awarded. Additionally,
she penalizes lazy and chaotic workers. By doing that, the workers are forced to work together in
harmony to avoid attracting penalties.
Disadvantages of Transactional leadership Style
Although using this type of leadership contributes to the fast development of the
organization, several disadvantages are associated with it. The creativity of the workers is not
well utilized since the organization's objectives and aims are already established. For example, in
the case of Wassmiah, the employees are directed to work on well-defined goals, and they are
not involved in formulating the goals. Additionally, the reward given to the workers is only in
the form of money or perks. The individual initiatives of the workers are not rewarded; hence,
they do not have a personal drive to work. For example, in the case of Wassmiah, he has to
supervise the workers for them to perform well. Failure to supervise them, the work will not be
done appropriately.