7003LBSMGT - Transformational Leadership and Workforce: Proposal

This presentation outlines a research proposal exploring the relationship between transformational leadership and workforce enhancement within organizations. It details the rationale for choosing this topic, emphasizing the student's interest in leadership styles and career aspirations in management. The core research question focuses on how transformational leadership contributes to workforce growth. The methodology involves a systematic review of academic literature, utilizing databases like EbscoHost, Scholar, and Charles Darwin, guided by the P.I.C.O.C. framework for question development. The research strategy includes a daily review of journal articles to identify the impact of transformational leadership, with specific inclusion and exclusion criteria. Preliminary findings highlight the availability of research on transformational leadership and its organizational impact. The proposal concludes by acknowledging the need for further research to fully understand the leadership-workforce relationship, noting that while transformational leadership aims to motivate employees, organizational practices can sometimes lead to stress instead. The presentation references key works by authors like Daft, Goleman, Northouse, and Yukl.

Dissertation Presentation
Proposal
Name of the Student

Introduction
• The presentation is a research proposal of a topic
related to transformational leadership.
Transformational Leadership can be described as a style
whereby the leader works along with his subordinates
to identify any requirement of a change and creating a
vision for his members and helping them with the
change1. The presentation is concerned with the
motivational aspect of the transformational leadership.
1Daft, Richard L. The leadership experience. Cengage Learning, 2014.

The chosen topic
•How transformational
Leadership increases
Workforce in the
Organization ?

Reason for choosing the topic
• As a management student I have read various
texts on Leadership and their related styles.
• To further develop my knowledge and to help
me in my career as a mange, I have chosen the
given topic.

Research questions and method
• Research question
• How transformational Leadership increases
Workforce in the Organization?
• Methods:
• I read various textbooks and journals on
Leadership which guided me in development of
the question
• Various databases like the Ebsco host, Scholar
and Charles Darwin were used.

Procedures relating to question development
• The P.I.C.O.C Method was used to develop the
question

p.i.c.o.c
• Initial focus: Transformational Leadership in organizations
• P- Leaders
• I- How do leaders contribute towards the welfare of the
society?
They do so by guiding the organization.
• C- How can transformational leadership increase the
production at the workplace2.
• O- Performance based- Quantitative vs. Qualitative.
• Context: Human resource, Management sector
2Northouse, Peter G. Leadership: Theory and practice. Sage publications, 2018.

Methods
• The results of the journals obtained from the different
database, will be compared and narrowed down. 10 main
journals were chosen.
• The search strategy was a very systematic one whereby the
researcher would be reading 2 journal articled daily an the
primary strategy is to find the impact on transformational
leadership on the workplace.
• Inclusion criteria: Cognitive skills, analytical ability, reading
skills, research skills, hard work, patience.
• Exclusion: Failure to understand, lack of material, training
and others

Main findings of systematic view
Number of studies Findings
Transformational Leadership-5
(Braun et al. 2013)
(Kark and Shamri 2016)
More than 5 articles available. Which are
related to the Transformational
Leadership and its impact on the
organization 3.
Workforce-2
(Sherehiy and Karwowski 2014)
( Kulkarni 2013)
Around two articles are available
reflecting the impact of various leadership
styles and other factors on the Workforce.
Daft and Cascio are the primarily authors in this field.
3Yukl, Gary A. Leadership in organizations. Pearson Education India, 2013.

Conclusion
• The given question is related to the
transformational leadership and its impact. At
present there are various journals and a
systematic method is being adopted to review
the given journal articles.
• I will be making use of theoretical data from a
large variety of sources and making a
descriptive paper on the impact of leadership
on the increase in workforce.

Critical reflection
• After analyzing the data and the theories available it
can be stated that a lot of research needs to be done in
the given topic in order to complete the relationship
between leadership and workforce in a firm4.
• As stated by Goleman et al. 2013, Transformational
Leadership motivates the employees to the
achievement of the goals. However, very often the
organization works in an efficient manner and stressed
out the employees instead of motivating them.
4Goleman, Daniel, Richard E. Boyatzis, and Annie McKee. Primal leadership: Unleashing the power of emotional
intelligence. Harvard Business Press, 2013.

References
• Daft, Richard L. The leadership experience. Cengage
Learning, 2014.
• Goleman, Daniel, Richard E. Boyatzis, and Annie
McKee. Primal leadership: Unleashing the power of
emotional intelligence. Harvard Business Press, 2013.
• Northouse, Peter G. Leadership: Theory and practice.
Sage publications, 2018.
• Yukl, Gary A. Leadership in organizations. Pearson
Education India, 2013.