Transformational Leadership and Organizational Performance

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Leadership refers to the ability of the management of a company for achieving the
challenging goal that can help in outperforming competition within an organization.
Transformational leadership is indicative of leadership theory in which the leader work along
with the teams so that they can identify the needed change and create vision that can help in
guiding change (McCleskey, 2014).This essay throws light on how the transformational
leadership can influence the organizational performance with the help of organizational
learning. It states how the organizational innovation can influence the performance of an
organization in a positive manner.
The article has rightly pointed out how transformational leadership can create
emotional link with the followers that can help in inspiring higher values. According to
Banks et al. (2016), transformational leadership can infuse sense of purpose within the
organization and it can help in seeking best organizational performance. Transformational
leadership can act as the transmitter of the innovative culture and they can encourage
commitment to the result of the members of an organization. It has been rightly stated that the
charismatic personality of a transformational leader can help in promoting intellectual
stimulation in an organization.
The article has stated how the charismatic personality of a transformational leader can
help in the generation of pride and faith in the employees of an organization. The
transformational leader can motivate the followers by communicating about the high
expectations. The transformational leader can promote the aspect of intellectual stimulation
by the promotion of intelligence of the employees (Breevaart et al., 2014). The
transformational leader makes use of knowledge along with learning that can help the
employees in being innovative pertaining to their approach of problem solving. The
transformational leader can prove to be greatly effective in leading change in an organization.
It can provide the employees with the ability of changing the long-held perception of the

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employees in an organization. According to Higgs and Dulewicz (2016), it can help a
business in allowing real transformations to take place in an organisation.
My most favoured style of leadership is the style of transformational leadership as it
can help the leader in solving straight-forward problem. It has been stated by Daft (2014),
that the transformational leader can act like a visionary and they can be creative in relation to
their approach that can help in improving the organizational efficiency. According to me,
transformational leadership style can see future and foresee the trends taking place in the
environment. The transformational leader acts like a facilitator who can facilitate
conversation among the key stakeholders.
The personal qualities that can give rise to effective leadership are passion, vision,
creativity, intellectual drive and confidence. A leader should be imbibed with passion that can
help him in making difficult decision that can be carried into action. On the other hand, a
leader should have vision that can help him in having ideas regarding change that can prove
to be fruitful for the growth of an organization (Fullan, 2014). The creative instinct of a
leader can help him in coming up with effective strategies that can help in advancing vision
of the organization. A leader should possess intellectual drive that can help him in learning
new things that can work for the benefit of an organization. According to Day and Sammons
(2016), an effective leader should have confidence so that his best ideas are believed by the
employees that can help the organization in making progress.
A leader should be able to learn from his everyday experience and this can lead to his
professional development. It has been stated by García-Morales, Jiménez-Barrionuevo and
Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez (2012) that a leader should be able to develop the quality of humility,
integrity, collaboration, courage, accountability, humanity and judgement that can come to be
of great use in his profession. Humility will be able to help a leader in the art of learning and