Article Review: Transformational Leadership and Performance Analysis

This literature review reflects on the transformational leadership paradigm and its effectiveness in enhancing follower values, motivation, and performance beyond expectations. It emphasizes the importance of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) in fostering customer satisfaction, reducing turnover, and improving overall performance. The review highlights the positive relationship between transformational leadership and performance across various organizational levels, noting its impact on team cohesion, communication, and the establishment of a conducive work environment. Transformational leaders inspire confidence, align efforts through clear vision, and serve as role models, ultimately influencing organizational climate, systems, and strategies to drive performance.

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Over the last three decades, the transformational leadership has emerged as being one of the
eminent paradigms to be able to recognize the effectiveness of the leadership. The
transformational philosophy continues to be depending on the notion that numerous leader
behavior might enhance the followers’ values, needs, aspirations, priorities and motivate all of
them to be able to execute far beyond the call of the duty (Wang, Courtright, & Colbert, 2011).
One significant construct that captures the performance of the followers that beyond the call of
the duty is an organizational environment which support on the performance of the task. In the
current complex and fast paced organizations, I have learnt that the employees extra role
behavior which will go beyond the limited list of the responsibilities they have become important
for the success of the organization. The organizational citizen behavior is associated to the
satisfaction of the customers, low turnover, with the high in the role of the performance. When it
comes to the leader follower relationship, the OCB could be suited best to reflect the follower
performance consequences (Wang, Courtright, & Colbert, 2011). Engaging in or even
withholding voluntary extra role behavior is a more flexible and saver means in repaying leader
treatment as compared to the task performance.
I have learnt that the transformational leadership is related positively to the performance across
the numerous criterion kinds in addition to levels of the analysis. The transformational leadership
generally has a more powerful relationship with regards to the individual level contextual
performance compared to the personal level task performance (Wang, Courtright & Colbert,
2011). I have also found out that the transformational leadership continues to be positively
associated with the team and organization level performance.

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The transformational leadership theory usually emphasize on the critical role when it comes to
the transformational leaders when it comes to improving the performance all across the various
levels of the organizations. In most of the case the transformational leaders usually express their
confidence that the team would achieve their goals, which leads to the higher levels of the
potency of the team (Wang, Courtright, & Colbert, 2011). The transformational leaders in most
of the case encourage higher levels of the team cohesion and this has showed to facilitate
coordination and cooperation among the group members.
I have known that transformational leadership behaviors are important for initiating the
relationship. At the degree of the business the transformational leaders impact certainly the
performance via communication of vision which serves to encourage the workers and at the same
time align their efforts (Wang, Courtright, & Colbert, 2011). The transformational leaders also
have been discovered to effect the performance of the business through the direct leadership to
the company leaders of the team. These people are getting to be the role model especially to the
leaders at the lower levels, which promotes the transformational leadership via the organization.
I have also identified that transformational leaders could impact on the organizational
performance through the influence on the organizational climate, systems as well as strategies,
hence resulting to the work environment to be more conductive to the transformational
leadership.

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References
Wang, G., Oh, I. S., Courtright, S. H., & Colbert, A. E. (2011). Transformational leadership and
performance across criteria and levels: A meta-analytic review of 25 years of research.
Group & Organization Management, 36(2), 223-270.