University Report: Transactional Leadership and Employee Motivation

This report examines transactional leadership within a cross-cultural environment, focusing on its effectiveness in motivating employees in diverse workplaces. It outlines the aim to assess the credibility of transactional leadership in such settings. The report poses research questions concerning the traits of transactional leadership, its benefits in a diverse workplace, and its effectiveness in a cross-cultural context. The research objectives include understanding the maintenance of a diverse workplace and assessing the effectiveness of transactional leadership. The significance lies in identifying the qualities of a transactional leader, exploring implementation strategies, and addressing the diverse mentalities of people from different cultures to foster a peaceful work environment. The report includes an article list with studies on situational, transformational, and transactional leadership, along with cross-cultural analyses and the impact on employee behavior and creativity.

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Transactional leadership
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Table of Contents
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Thesis statement...................................................................................................................2
Research questions...............................................................................................................2
Research objective...............................................................................................................2
Research significance..........................................................................................................3
Article list............................................................................................................................4

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Topic
Transactional leadership in cross-cultural environment
Aim
The aim of the paper is to assess the credibility of transactional leadership quality in a
diverse workplace and how it will be helping in motivating the employees in the workplace.
Thesis statement
The paper will be based on the transactional style of leadership which is applied in cross-
cultural environment.
Research questions
The following are the research question on which the research proposal will be
conducted:
 What are the different traits of transactional leadership?
 What are the various ways by which transactional leadership will be helpful in a diverse
workplace?
 How effective is transactional leadership in cross-cultural context?
Research objective
The main aim objective of doing this research is to understand the various ways by which
a diverse workplace needs to be maintained. By the help of this research the various traits of
transactional leadership will be understood and the effectiveness of this style of leadership will
be assessed.

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Research significance
By the help of conducting this research the various qualities of being a transactional
leader will be known. How transactional leadership can be implemented in an organization will
be understood by this process. People from different culture have different mentality which
needs to be addressed so that a peaceful environment can be maintained in the workplace. The
people from different cultural context have their individual opinion which the leaders and the
managers of the workplace must address. Individual concepts of the people must be taken into
account for facilitating smooth management and maintaining the workplace.

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Article list
McCleskey, J. A. (2014). Situational, transformational, and transactional leadership and
leadership development. Journal of Business Studies Quarterly, 5(4), 117.
Flatten, T., Adams, D., & Brettel, M. (2015). Fostering absorptive capacity through leadership: A
cross-cultural analysis. Journal of World Business, 50(3), 519-534.
Lvina, E. (2015). The Role of Cross-Cultural Communication Competence: Effective
Transformational Leadership Across Cultures. Jurnal Ilmiah Peuradeun, 3(1), 1-18.
Obeidat, B. Y., & Tarhini, A. (2016). A Jordanian empirical study of the associations among
transformational leadership, transactional leadership, knowledge sharing, job performance, and
firm performance. Journal of Management Development.
Bealer, D., & Bhanugopan, R. (2014). Transactional and transformational leadership behaviour
of expatriate and national managers in the UAE: a cross-cultural comparative analysis. The
international journal of human resource management, 25(2), 293-316.
Antonakis, J. and House, R.J., 2014. Instrumental leadership: Measurement and extension of
transformational–transactional leadership theory. The Leadership Quarterly, 25(4), pp.746-771.
Rodrigues, A. D. O., & Ferreira, M. C. (2015). The impact of transactional and transformational
leadership style on organizational citizenship behaviors. Psico-USF, 20(3), 493-504.
Eisenbeiß, S. A., & Brodbeck, F. (2014). Ethical and unethical leadership: A cross-cultural and
cross-sectoral analysis. Journal of Business Ethics, 122(2), 343-359.

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Hamstra, M. R., Van Yperen, N. W., Wisse, B., & Sassenberg, K. (2014). Transformational and
transactional leadership and followers’ achievement goals. Journal of Business and Psychology,
29(3), 413-425.
Ma, X., & Jiang, W. (2018). Transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and employee
creativity in entrepreneurial firms. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 54(3), 302-324.