Leadership Theories in Organizations: A QCD111 Essay Analysis

This essay analyzes two key leadership theories: transactional and transformational leadership. It explores how transactional leadership, with its emphasis on rewards, can influence organizational creativity by encouraging knowledge sharing among employees. The essay also discusses the signific...Read More

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Leadership is the building block of a well organized management system. All the leaders
have to make sure that they are taking care of the different needs and demands of employees who
are working in the organization. It is the duty or the responsibility of the leaders to take care of
all the skill gaps or the different weaknesses that are present within the employees. The leaders
are responsible for the purpose of communicating all the different business decisions to the
employees and making sure that they are being able to understand the needs of the employees
and the different ways in which it can be solved. However it must be noted that the leader or the
managers must carry on with their leadership approach in a proper way so that they are able to
get the help and the support from all the employees so that they can carry on all the different
goals and objectives of the organization properly. The two essential leadership theories that have
been discussed are the transactional and the transformational leadership. It is for this reason
that several article analyses have been undertaken for understanding the leadership concept
The article is mainly focusing on the transactional leadership theory and how it can
improve the organizational efficiency. This must be made sure that all the leaders are able to
understand about their duties towards the uplifting of the employees. There is a directly
proportional relationship between the transactional leadership and creativity among the
employees. The employees will have to undertake a proper communication among themselves
and with their seniors as well so that they can develop a good level of creativity and can face the
challenges properly (Hussain et al., 2017). The transactional leadership is useful for the purpose
of making the employees much more productive. This is because of the fact that if the employees
are getting more rewards and getting proper motivation then they will be able to develop more
creative ideas and also make sure that they are being able to work over the organizational goals
and objectives and also try to make sure that they are being able to make to transfer the creative

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business ideas from one to other. This helps in empowering the employees and also in making
sure that there is the social development of the organization.
Team member’s experience is affected by the flow of shared leadership within the
organization. It has been seen that the employees get empowered and motivated when they have
a proper participation in the decision making process and they are also getting a proper
representation in the organization. Thus there is an inverse proportional relation between the
density of employees and the team working performances that is the outcome is strong (Aube,
Rousseau & Brunelle, 2018). However on the other hand centralization leads to issues in the
team working and to overcome the different hurdles that can come in the path. Therefore it is the
duty or the responsibility of the employees to make sure that they are being able to take part in
all the decision making process and also interact with the managers in a proper way so that there
is no centralization of power in any of the departments (Rosenbach, 2018). The employees have
to be given complete right to understand the different business decisions that are being taken and
also the different ways in which they have been able to take care in all the business decisions.
There is a proper relationship between the leadership and the innovation that is present in
any team. The traditional model of leadership is one where there is only one leader who acts as
the head. It is the leader who is able to take all the different decisions and it is him who is also
responsible for the purpose of conveying the same to all the employees. However it must be
noted that the leaders in the current scenario are trying to question the age old traditions and also
developing the different ways in which the employees can also get motivated. He employees or
the team mates will be motivated as they will be able to give in their own verdicts and their

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opinions in order to understand about the different decisions and the value that they are actually
being given in the organization. It has been seen that in order to make the organizations run in a
very successful manner, the concept of shared leadership has to be developed so that all the
employees can also give in their votes and their decision in the decision making process of any
organization. The leaders who are following the theory of transformational leadership have to
make sure that they are using the concept of shared leadership framework where there can be a
horizontal filed of communication. This will enable the leaders to understand that there best
business decisions can be taken when the leaders are trying to share all the possible business
decisions along with the help and active participation of their employees or their team mates.
Transformational leadership is one that is useful as the leaders engage with their
followers and help them to overcome all their weakness and strive towards achieving the
organizational goals and the objectives. However on the other hand the transaction leaders are
actually more passive when asked to take up the role of transformational leaders. This is because
they will have to focus more on the achievement of the missions of then organization (Carleton,
Barling & Trivisonno, 2018). Therefore it can be said that the transactional leaders are the ones
who usually focus on the system f rewards and achievement for the purpose of making their
employees motivated for the purpose of gaining the overall objectives of the organization. Prasad
and Junni (2016) have stated that transformational leaders are the ones who display the
intellectual stimulation and try to promote the growth of the innovative ideas. However on the
other hand the transactional leaders are the ones who will be focusing on the status quo or will be
busy in correcting the errors of their employees (Masa'deh, Obeidat & Tarhini, 2016).
The willingness among the team members or the employees has to be created by the
readers or the managers by interacting freely with the employees. This can be done by making

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sure that the employees are being given all the possible resources for overcoming their skill gaps
and making sure that they are not suffering in any way. They will have to be able to reach out to
their managers in a proper way so that they can get all the help and support from their leaders.
The leaders or the managers will have to follow the transformational leadership (Qiong Wu &
Kathryn Cormican, 2016). They will have to make sure that they are trying to develop a peer to
peer connection and communication among the different employees who are working in the
organization. The proper networking system is developed out of the transformational leadership
as it is useful in order to understand about the ways in which there can be a proper utilization of
the resources. However it must be ensured at the same time that people must be able to
understand about the different ways in which there will be a very less wastage of the resources.
In other words the network will be helping the employees to develop better creative ideas for the
overall welfare of the organization. This will also be very helpful for the purpose of overcoming
their weakness and their skill gaps in order to make sure that they will be able to understand the
business goals in a proper way and ten out the possible efforts in a joint collaborative manner.
The transformational leaders have to make sure that they are able to bring about the change
among their employees by supporting them at every possible step and also by making sure that
they are not being ignored in any manner (Hawkins, 2017). Therefore it can be understood from
this team that it will be able to perform well when they are getting a good leadership, they will be
able to know that then leaders are always here to help them out and also to make sure that the
employees are not facing any kinds of issues (Hoch, 2013).
Therefore it can be concluded that a sound leadership system I needed for the overall
welfare of the organization. The business organization will be able to perform properly when
there is a un interrupted relationship between the leaders and the employees. The leaders must

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develop a very approachable and friendly relationship with their employees so that the
employees can get the right kind of support and then they can also give their feedbacks and their
opinions in all kinds’ of business decision. This can be developing if the leaders are following
then transformation leadership theory and also the transactional leadership theory. This will
enable the leaders to develop a shared leadership concept where all the employees will be able to
give in their likings and their feedbacks to show their approval or their disapproval toward an
kinds of business decisions that are being undertaken.

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