Leadership Theory Essay Preparation: Research and Analysis - QUT

This document presents a student's preparation for a leadership theory essay, focusing on two key leadership theories: transformational and servant leadership. The student analyzes several peer-reviewed journal articles, examining their relevance to the chosen leadership theories. The analysis includes identifying the aims, key points, positives and negatives, broad and narrow focuses, and discipline contexts of each article. The student also compares and contrasts articles, describes research methods, and extracts useful quotes with explanations for their potential use in the essay. The assignment covers topics such as organizational innovation, knowledge acquisition, emotional labor, and employee engagement, providing a comprehensive overview of the student's research and understanding of leadership concepts. The student has also followed the guidelines of the assignment brief to prepare for the essay, including answering specific questions and providing detailed analysis of the chosen articles.

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Article 1
Essay preparation tables
What questions do you have about your leadership theories and how they connect to your
discipline context?
- How the organizational innovation process gets influenced by the theoretical implication
of transformational leadership?
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Select 6 relevant journal articles (Peer reviewed).
Complete the following examination for each article.
Source 1
Jiang, Y., & Chen, C. C. (2018). Integrating knowledge activities for team
innovation: effects of transformational leadership. Journal of
Management, 44(5), 1819-1847.
https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0149206316628641
Aim of
research
The aim of this research is to shed light on the significant impact of
transformational leadership practices in case of controlling innovative team
performance.
Key
points
The integrated mechanism of transformational leadership and its impact on
knowledge acquisition process in an organization.

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Significance of the integration function of transformational leadership
practices in terms of enhancing collective innovation in a team.
Examine how the article is relevant to your leadership theory/s.
Positives (regarding leadership theory/s or the article):
In this article, the author has shed light on the leadership theories make an effective
contribution in case of increasing the high profitability rate in the workplace
The article included hypothesized model that has allowed me for understand the research
process in proper manner.
Negatives (regarding leadership theory/s or the article):
The research has specifically focused on the particular transformational leadership
practices, however, there are other many different types of leadership theories, which can
bring significant impact on innovation management.
Broad focus:
The broad focus of the article is here the author has highlighted the core integrative
mechanism of corporative norms that impacts on the serving process of the leaders. The
article has also introduced some general information regarding company perspectives in
case of gaining the competitive advantage.
Narrow focus:
The narrow focus is moderate relationship between innovation and knowledge sharing
process. In this article, impact of transformational leadership practices in case of

knowledge acquisition process has been highlighted.
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Discipline context:
In this research paper the author has focused on identified the core integrative mechanism
of team cooperative norms, transformational leadership practices and knowledge sharing
process in the organization. In this article, examining various functional areas, interactive as
well as autonomous areas of leadership management has been highlighted.
Compare and/or contrast with other article/s:
The leadership practices play the significant role in terms of ensuring the sustainable
position of the organization in competitive business environment. Transformational
leadership practice can help to improve the knowledge sharing process as well as
introducing innovation in the workplace. On the other hand, Martinaityte Sacramento
and Aryee (2019) stated that, it has been mentioned that automotive leadership
practices are also very important for ensuring team growth.
Martinaityte, I., Sacramento, C., & Aryee, S. (2019). Delighting the Customer:
Creativity-Oriented High-Performance Work Systems, Frontline Employee Creative
Performance, and Customer Satisfaction. Journal of Management, 45(2), 728-751.
Describe the research method/s used in the article (At least 4 sources).
Type of
research
Using the sampling method, research information has been gathered.
Using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire Form 5X–Short, the
information has been collected. On the other hand, confirmatory factor

analysis has been used for calculating the aggregate score of team level.
Participants Total numbers of 44 project groups have been selected from a Chinese
form.
Location & date Responds have been collected from Chinese firm. In this research paper,
the researcher has not mentioned about any deadline.
Findings It has been identified that the transformational leadership can
significantly impact on the team performance. Developing the
cooperative norms between the knowledge sharing process and
innovative performance, the author has identified how these variables get
influenced by the transformational leadership practices.
Identify 2 – 3 useful quotes from the article and explain why they would be useful for the
essay.
Include APA in-text citations.
Quote 1 +
in-text citation
“we replicated the integrative mechanism and associated transformational
leadership with external team knowledge acquisition, which further
moderated the relationship between knowledge sharing and innovation”
(Jiang & Chen, 2018 p. 1820).
Explanation The line has explained the importance transformational leadership
implementation in case of driving the knowledge acquisition process in
the workplace. Analysing the significant impact of transformational
leadership approach it can be said that in case of achieving the
organizational goals it is important. The workplace complexity brings
influential impact on the theoretical implications of leadership practices.

In this situation accessing the individuals’ performances, examining
leadership attribute theories have become essential.
Quote 2 +
in-text citation
‘To the extent transformational leadership has the potential to foster both
integrative
and autonomous processes, it is important to investigate them
simultaneously and compare
their relative strength in stimulating innovation’
Explanation Transformational leadership van be considered as the autonomous
process.
Martinaityte, I., Sacramento, C., & Aryee, S. (2019). Delighting the Customer: Creativity-
Oriented High-Performance Work Systems, Frontline Employee Creative Performance, and
Customer Satisfaction. Journal of Management, 45(2), 728-751.
Article 2
Essay preparation tables
What questions do you have about your leadership theories and how they connect to your
discipline context?
- How the positive leadership practices impact on the emotional abilities of individuals in
the workplace?
-How the servant leadership practices impacts on the social information processing
perspectives of individuals?

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Select 6 relevant journal articles (Peer reviewed).
Complete the following examination for each article.
Source 1
Lu, J., Zhang, Z., & Jia, M. (2018). Does servant leadership affect employees’
emotional labor? A social information-processing perspective. Journal
of Business Ethics, 1-12.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-018-3816-3
Aim of
research
The aim of this research is to highlight the theoretical implication of social
information processing theory and analyse how the employee emotional labour
gets influenced by servant leadership.
Key
points
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3
The servant leadership influences the emotional perspectives of the labours by
affect trust.
Emotional management plays the significant role for driving social
perspectives of the employees.
Examine how the article is relevant to your leadership theory/s.
Positives (regarding leadership theory/s or the article):
In this article, the author has shed light on the servant leadership theory make an effective
contribution in case of regulating the inner feelings of the employees.

The article included two types of emotional displays such as deep acting and surface acting,
which are important for driving the workplace expectations of the employees.
Negatives (regarding leadership theory/s or the article):
The research has specifically focused on the Chinese industry, in that case, it cannot be
assured that the theoretical implication of servant leadership and social information
processing theory can be done in the global sector or not.
Broad focus:
The broad focus of the article is here the author has highlighted how the servant leadership
impacts on regulating the emotional needs of the employees. Behavioural characteristics of
the servant leader have been highlighted by the author for ensuring emotional well-being in
the workplace.
Narrow focus:
The narrow focus is moderate relationship between employee behaviour and leadership
practice. In this article, impact of utilization of interaction process on interpreting the
internal interaction system in the workplace.
Discipline context:
In this research paper the author has focused on the social information processing theory
and its impact for developing individuals work environment. Sharing the holistic concern
regarding the welfare of the employees, the servant leaders play the important role of a
decision maker.
Compare and/or contrast with other article/s:

The psychological perceptions are being adopted by the servant leadership practices.
On the other hand Otero-Neira, Varela-Neira & Bande (2016), it has been mentioned
that depending on the behavioural information such as agreement, offences as well as
mistakes, the perception of individuals are being judged.
Describe the research method/s used in the article (At least 4 sources).
Type of
research
Using the sampling method, research information has been gathered.
Participants Total numbers of 305 employees from 81 work units have participated.
Location & date Responds have been collected from 25 sub corporations of Chinese food
company. In this research paper, the researcher has not mentioned about
any deadline.
Findings It has been identified that the in case of influencing affective trust of the
employees, servant leadership plays the significant role. in case of
understanding the changing expression as well as behavioural
perceptions of the employees, the implication of social information
processing theory can play an effective role.
Identify 2 – 3 useful quotes from the article and explain why they would be useful for the
essay.
Include APA in-text citations.
Quote 1 +
in-text citation
“Unlike most leaders
devoted to maximizing personal or organizational interests,
Servant leaders are devoted to employee needs and development.” (Lu,

Zhang & Jia, 2018).
Explanation Servant leadership implication not only ensured the professional growth of
individuals, but also it plays the significant role for ensuring the personal
growth of individuals.
Quote 2 +
in-text citation
‘Specifically, servant leaders not only bring their authentic
selves to work, but also encourage employees to express
themselves in ways that are consistent with inner feelings
and thoughts’ (Lu, Zhang & Jia, 2018)
Explanation The implication of servant leadership in the workplace helps to encourage
individuals abilities in the workplace that impact on the overall growth
process.
Otero-Neira, C., Varela-Neira, C., & Bande, B. (2016). Supervisory servant leadership and
employee’s work role performance: A multilevel mediation model. Leadership & Organization
Development Journal, 37(7), 860-881.
Article 3
Essay preparation tables
What questions do you have about your leadership theories and how they connect to your
discipline context?
- How does organizational performance get influenced by theoretical implication of
transformational leadership theory?
-How does the transformational leadership theory enhance the dynamic capabilities as well

as learning process in an organization?
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Select 6 relevant journal articles (Peer reviewed).
Complete the following examination for each article.
Source 1
García-Morales, V. J., Jiménez-Barrionuevo, M. M., & Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, L.
(2012). Transformational leadership influence on organizational
performance through organizational learning and innovation. Journal of
business research, 65(7), 1040-1050.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.03.005
Aim of
research
The aim of this research is to identify the significant impact of
transformational leadership in case of enhancing the dynamic capabilities of
innovation and learning process in an organization.
Key
points
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3
The transformational leadership plays an important role for driving
organizational performance.
Depending on the organizational innovation, positive performance
management can be ensured in an organization.
Organizational learning process directly connected with the innovation process
in the company.
Examine how the article is relevant to your leadership theory/s.
Positives (regarding leadership theory/s or the article):

In this article, the author has shed light on the importance of transformational leadership
practices for achieving collective goal in the organization. In order to attain job satisfaction,
transformational leadership helps to focus on promoting the controlling and monitoring
factors in the company.
The article included different attempt of transformational leadership practices for creating
the higher value as well as develop emotional links among the employees.
Negatives (regarding leadership theory/s or the article):
The research has specifically focused on any industry, in that case, it cannot be assured that
the theoretical implication of transformational leadership can be done in the any specific
sector.
Broad focus:
The broad focus of the article is here the author has mentioned about important contribution
of transformational leadership practices for managing the dynamic capabilities. Analysing
the interrelationship between organizational performance and transformational leadership
practices the study has focused on measuring the variables that impact on the organizational
performance.
Narrow focus:
The narrow focus is here the author has not described much about the behavioural
characteristics of the transformational leader.
Discipline context:
In this research paper the author has focused on identifying the critical capability of the