CJ 330 Module 6 Short Paper: Transformational Leadership Review

This paper provides an overview of transformational leadership, summarizing its key components such as intellectual stimulation, inspirational motivation, individualized consideration, and idealized influence. It contrasts transformational leadership with traditional leadership styles, highlighting differences in risk tolerance, business orientation, and impact. The paper also explores the practical application of transformational leadership principles within the context of criminal justice, specifically focusing on how a criminal justice manager can utilize this leadership style to inspire and motivate individuals towards achieving common goals, ensuring justice, and supporting truth. The paper follows the guidelines of the assignment brief that include a summary of transformational leadership style, a comparison of transformational leadership style with traditional leadership styles, and an application of transformational leadership principles as a criminal justice manager.

Running head: LEADERSHIP
Leadership skills
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Table of Contents
Summary of transformational leadership...................................................................................2
Comparison between transformational leadership and traditional leadership...........................2
Applications of transformational leadership..............................................................................3
References..................................................................................................................................4

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Summary of transformational leadership
The transformational leadership is mentioned as a kind of theory by which the lead
can change their behaviour as well as attitude in accordance with the situational requirements.
The leader can change their leadership styles to make vision for guiding the people and
execute them during the leading time of the team (Mittal & Dhar, 2015). Within this
leadership style, there are four different categories of elements by which this kind of
leadership style can be achieved. The elements are such as intellectual stimulation as well as
or inspirational motivation, individualized consideration and also idealized influence. Some
of the important benefits of this leadership style are that it may create or manage the change
and also this style helps to engage the person with the team with full support.
Comparison between transformational leadership and traditional
leadership
Category Traditional leadership Transformational
leadership
Identification This leadership style is
mainly IT focused that
means the technical based.
Moreover, this kind of
leaders are generally more
experienced and can tolerate
a low number of risks
(Roueche, Baker III & Rose,
This kind of leaders are
usually strategic and can
tolerate a huge amount of
risks. This leadership
supports the broad kind of
business orientation.

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2014).
Closing with association This leadership style can
associate with IT based
persons within the
organization.
This leadership style
associates with the
organizational workers and
also external customers.
Success definition This leadership style
supports the continuous
improvements.
This leadership style helps
to adopt the new processes
to achieve the goal
financially.
Preference with environment This leadership style relates
with excellent business
culture.
This leadership style relates
with innovative culture
(Breevaart et al., 2014).
Impact This kind of leadership style
helps to keep the business
safe from the troubles.
This leadership style has
faced lots of troubles in
business.
Applications of transformational leadership
Though the transformational leadership is people based therefore, it helps to inspire
the people towards their goal and also motivate the persons. In the case of criminal justice
manager, he has this leadership style for supporting the truth in accordance with the situation
(McCleskey, 2014). He has to provide the proper justice to motivate the persons towards their
goal of the proper results in the situation. In this way, the criminal justice manager should
follow the transformational leadership style.

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References
Breevaart, K., Bakker, A., Hetland, J., Demerouti, E., Olsen, O. K., & Espevik, R. (2014).
Daily transactional and transformational leadership and daily employee
engagement. Journal of occupational and organizational psychology, 87(1), 138-157.
McCleskey, J. A. (2014). Situational, transformational, and transactional leadership and
leadership development. Journal of Business Studies Quarterly, 5(4), 117.
Mittal, S., & Dhar, R. L. (2015). Transformational leadership and employee
creativity. Management Decision.
Roueche, J. E., Baker III, G. A., & Rose, R. R. (2014). Shared vision: Transformational
leadership in American community colleges. Rowman & Littlefield.