Transactional and Transformational Leadership and Their Impact on Workforce Behavior

Leadership
Leadership
2018

Leadership
(Essay on “Critically assess how transactional and transformational leadership affects
workforce behavior”)
The essay describing about what leadership is and how transactional and transformational
leadership affects the workforce behavior. The task also highlights the differences that are
present between transactional and transformational leadership. It shows how transactional and
transformational leadership is helpful in an organization and the possibilities that it will be
effective if they are combined together by the leaders. The two types of leadership make smooth
functioning of the business possible. It is considered as an effective way of doing business. The
task further provides help in knowing how these types of leadership is seen working in an
organization. The task therefore draws the relation between transactional and transformational
leadership style and the way it is and it can be practiced in an organization. More detail of the
task has been drawn below.
Transactional leadership is a style that focuses on supervising, organizing and
performing. In this type of leadership, leaders are responsible for promoting the idea of working
with the help of rewards or even the punishments (Wang, Oh, Courtright & Colbert, 2011).
Transactional leadership style does not really focus on changing the future rather it works on the
already existing team. Leaders work on developing the same environment without making much
change in it. They are responsible for managing larger operations and international projects. It is
dependent on self- motivated people who help them in supervising, organizing and performing
for better functioning. The leaders are the workers work together to achieve the desired goals
(Jogulu, 2010).
Transformational leadership is a style which focuses of transforming the environment of
business by bringing in new changes. It uses a leader along with its subordinates to work
together on a group in order to identify the changes that are needed in the business. The
leadership style focuses on enhancing the growth of an individual, motivates them, and increases
their job performance. The teams work together to bring out the change in business in a positive
way. The leaders under this style teach the worker to accept the challenges and overcome their
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weaknesses by strengthening their capability of doing work. Transactional leadership guarantees
the growth of an individual (Warrick, 2011).
Leadership style means analyzing, advocating, encouraging and motivating people of the
organization to effectively run the business.
Strategy plays a very important role in decision making. Leadership style helps in
managing the business in a strategic manner. It is an efficient way for the company to motivate
and encourage their employees towards the work and brings out there in a capability of walking
with the organization with proper and true loyalty and honesty. It is a way of building business
with a professional approach in a systematic manner. In this way, it affects the workforce
behavior at the workplace. Leadership style also helps the company in showcasing their practical
approach in running a business. Transactional and transformational leaders are two types of
leadership style that focus on managing and organizing the performance of business by
motivating the employees. There is a huge involvement of both the styles in affecting the
workforce behavior. These leadership techniques are used when there is a misconduct and
misbehavior are going on among the employees and there is a need of finding a solution to it.
Employees seek various solutions to resolve the issues from its leaders. The leaders are therefore
responsible in finding a proper solution to those problems. Many a times it happens that the work
given to the employees becomes burdensome and heavy. In order to avoid this company usually
looks for leaders who are motivated and can also motivate others. Values play an important role
in assisting company in achieving the target (Birasnav, 2014).
Transformational leaders are responsible in developing the feeling of honesty, hard work,
liable, confident, etc. These leadership style helps in managing the work force by encouraging
them and fulfilling the needs of the employees. These two leadership style shows indirect and
positive impact on the behavior of employees. It creates job satisfaction among them. The
impacts are seen with the help of leaders who make these employees realize about the inner
strength that they possess which can help them in achieving the target in an effective way
(Dumdum, Lowe & Avolio, 2013). Employees need a timely motivation from the leaders in
order to work efficiently to achieve the target. Leaders of the company are made on the basis of
their managing skills, their professionalism, attitude, values, capability of managing work and
ability to guide their subordinates. Employees being the important part of business needs to be
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