Leadership Theories and Examples of Transformational Leaders

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Answer 1
Rensis Likert offered a new dimension to the domain of organizational development
theory by identifying four leadership techniques that take into account the whole organization
namely, the exploitative authoritative system, benevolent authoritative model, consultative
system and the participative group system. The exploitative authoritative system is referred to the
utilization of coercion in order to achieve organizational goals, whereby decisions are forced on
subordinates further creating restricted opportunities for team performance and wide gap
supervisors and subordinates (Gonos & Gallo, 2013). The benevolent authoritative system
focuses on the system that assists the proposals of subordinates to the management level.
However, in the consultative style of leadership primary decision-making is performed by the
higher organizational hierarchy yet encourages an active participation of the stakeholders.
Lastly, the participative leadership technique acknowledges supportive associations, team
decision-making and increased level of organizational performance goals. However, there can
be identified a number of comparisons between Likert’s theoretical model of leadership and the
participative leadership theory proposed by Mary Parker Follett (Antonakis & House, 2013).
Similar to Follett’s theory, Likert firmly believed in harmony within the organization, and
further argued that individual actions are related to the direct consequence of the organizational
performance.
Answer2
The Path Goal theoretical model has been developed in order to describe the way in
which leaders acknowledge and support their subordinates in accomplishing the goals
(Antonakis & Day, 2017). This theory depends on identifying the leadership style that is most