Analyzing Leadership Styles in National Bank of Bahrain Departments

This essay provides an overview of leadership styles within the National Bank of Bahrain (NBB), focusing on the HRD and PR departments. It contrasts transactional and transformational leadership, examining their implementation and effects. Transactional leadership in HRD emphasizes rules, performance management, and formal employee relations, leading to accountability and obedience but potentially stifling creativity. Transformational leadership in PR aims for innovation and customer satisfaction through campaigns and events, fostering a positive public image. The essay critically analyzes the successes and failures of each approach, highlighting the importance of adapting leadership styles to specific departmental goals and organizational contexts. The study concludes that while transactional leadership ensures control and efficiency, transformational leadership promotes growth and adaptability in NBB.

Leadership in a
changing
context

Introduction
HRD department
Human resource
development department of
the company helps them in
gathering prospective
people for the company and
keeping them interested in
process activities as well.
The HRD departments help
in creating good workplace
environment for the
employees(Banks, et. al.,
2016).
The purpose of this task is
to provide a brief overview
about the leadership styles
used in different
departments of the national
bank of Bahrain.
PR department: The public
relation department is the
department promotes the
company in the external
market and aims to satisfy the
customers with their activities.
Activities like promotion,
customer grievances/
complaints etc. are handled by
this department. 2

Transactional
Leadership
This type of leadership is also known as
managerial leadership which lays
emphasis only on the process of
supervision, organization and
performance of the company
(Ohunakin, Adeniji, and Akintayo,
2016). The transactional leadership
style is a style under which the
leaders of the organization insist
the followers to obey the rules and
laws formed by the organization,
they perform such acts with the use
of both rewards and punishments
process.
Transactional leadership establishes and
standardize practices helps an
organization to reach maturity and
emphasis setting of goals (Javed,
Jaffari, and Rahim 2014)
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“▪ Transactional leadership focus on the results of the activities
presented in the organization; also this type of leadership lays
strict focus the outcomes and order to provide outcomes, the
leaders penalize and reward the employees for the work
performed by them. A transactional leader works by providing
rewards and sanctions to its employees.
▪ Political scientist James McGregor Burns is one of the most
prominent authors to talk about leadership in his book in the
year 1980 (Asrar-ul-Haq, and Kuchinke 2016) .
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Implication of transactional
leadership
▪ The leaders who perform
transactional leadership style
lay more focus on the short
term goals and plans, and
standard rules and codes of
conduct. Such leaders strictly
follow the rules ad do not
believe in inputting creativity
and innovation in process of
the organization (Belias, et. al.,
2015) .
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• The assumptions of transactional leadership are that the activity
believes that the employees get motivated by rewards and
punishments and the subordinates have to obey the orders given
by the superiors.
• The transactional leadership is used in an organization when the
leader wants to maintain a strict decorum in the organization.

Transformation
al Leadership
Transformational is a leadership style which
works with an aim to create inspirational
vision for the subordinates working with them.
The leaders who uses this type of leadership
style identify the changes which shall be
conducted by the management and
implement them using innovation and
creativity practices in the system (Imran, Ilyas,
and Aslam 2016).
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This term was firstly
coined by James V.
Downton and was further
developed by leadership
expert and presidential
biographer James
MacGregor Burns.
According to Burns, this
leadership applies when
leaders and followers
make each other advance
to a higher level of
morality and motivation
(Northouse 2018) .

Examples of Transformational
leaders
▪ Peter Ducker
He was a prof. and
management consultant
who identified the
biggest change of
marketing and
innovation. He coined
that term knowledge
worker. The professor
combined and managed
the short term and long
term goals together to
profits for the business.
He also used
entrepreneurship as the
vehicle of innovation in
an organization.
▪ Ross Perot
H. Ross Perot developed
his career from IBM
where he worked as a
salesperson. Later in
1960s he initiated his
own company where he
trained workers to enact
activities which are
needed to be done to
raise the satisfaction
level of customers
(Belias, and Koustelios
2014).
▪ John D.
Rockefeller
Rockefeller was the
owner and founder of
Standard Oil Company.
He started his business
from a single oil refinery
and led his business to
grow with time. He
aimed to provide
guaranteed products to
the customers b
increasing tactics and
disciplined strategies for
the employees to work
efficiently.
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Difference between
transactional and
transformational
leadership
▪ Transactional leadership is more responsive
than proactive, whereas transformational
leadership is proactive. Transactional
leadership works within the culture of
organization whereas transformational
leadership works with an aim to change the
culture of the organization for better
outcomes.
▪ Transactional leaders motivates the followers
by appealing to their own self-interest whereas
transformational leaders motivates the
subordinates by encouraging them to
transcend their own interests for those of the
group or unit (Chatterjee, and Kulakli 2015) .
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Implementation of transactional in HRD department
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• The human resource department of the National
Bank of Bahrain involves strict rules ad
regulation for the successful implementation of
process at their workplace. The department of
the bank aims to manage the workplace
environment by successfully implementing the
code of conduct in the organization (Dartey-
Baah, and Ampofo 2015).
• Apart from that, the leaders of the company do
not prefer sharing all the information with their
employees, they just inform them about the
new rules which the subordinates needs to
follow in order to sustain in the environment
(Mozammel and Haan 2016).

Process of transaction leadership in
NBB
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HRD processes
Performance management:
The transactional leader of
the company performs the
administrative functions of
the organization correctly.
They record the number of
times when the employee
received rewards and the
times when he got
punishment as well. With the
help of such data analysis
the HR department of the
company provides
performance appraisal to the
employees and retain them
(Muenjohn, and Armstrong
2015)
.
Recruitment and selection
process: The recruitment and
section process is
implemented strictly with the
help of vision and code of
conduct of the company. The
company aims to seek the
employees who can adhere the
rules of the organization and
contribute their share in
growth.
Employee relation: the human resource department
maintains formal relation with the employee in the
company. They do not believe in interacting with the
subordinates and seeking their suggestion for the
accomplishment of tasks.

Effect of transactional
leadership on HRD of NBB
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• The transactional HR is
similar to the
administrative functions
which were once handled
by the personnel
department of the
company. Role of
transactional in this case
includes the benefit
administration,
investigating workplace
issues and implementing
the workplace policies.
The leaders in this case
consider their role of
transactional leader and
• The leaders judge their
organization only in two
categories, either right that
is justified according to the
procedure of the company
and wrong that is against
the guidance of the
company (Yang, and Lim
2016) .

Implementation transformational in public relations
dept.
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The public relations department of any company is a department which
helps the organization to promote their activities in the external market and
satisfy the requirements of the customers as well. This department of NBB
uses the transformational leadership style in the process to flourish their
business.
As the company is present in banking sector it is very important for them to
satisfy the customer’s requirements and provide them adequate banking
suggestions as well. So, the leaders present in that department use the
transformational leadership techniques in creating an identified place for
the business through its activities (Tsigu, and Rao 2015) .