Comparative Analysis of Leadership Styles: Article Review

This report provides a comprehensive review and comparison of two articles focusing on leadership styles: transformative leadership and servant leadership. The first article, by Caldwell et al. (2012), emphasizes transformative leadership, highlighting the importance of ethical principles, stakeholder interests, and moral duties. It explores concepts like level five leadership, charismatic leadership, and the influence of transformational leadership on individual and organizational vision. The second article, by Gandolfi and Stone (2018), examines servant leadership within a business context, emphasizing employee satisfaction, ethical practices, and the role of leaders in fostering a positive workplace culture. The report contrasts these approaches, noting the complexities of transformative leadership and the business-specific focus of servant leadership. The review also discusses the author's personal leadership development, emphasizing the importance of communication skills and personality in shaping an effective leadership style. The analysis concludes that transformative leadership offers a more comprehensive framework for addressing the multifaceted challenges in leadership, while servant leadership provides a valuable approach within business organizations.

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The notion and paradigm of leadership has become an important aspect in the current
perspective. From the business to the political platform lack of leadership quality and the crisis
of positive leader is identified as a common image. There are certainly some common ground for
establishing an effective leadership in organisation but dearth of understanding and realisation of
the importance of leadership create impeccable challenge for the leaders to foster good
leadership style in practice. Moreover, it can be argued that the advent of globalisation is also
increased complexities in the leadership characteristics as the leaders are witnessing dynamic
activities in the performance. However, they are not prepared for attributing such number of
activities. As a result of that inefficiency and inadequacy are created obstruction to the efficacy
of the present day leaders. Therefore, a rational and pragmatic leadership approach is required
that can deal with the magnanimity of activities and also help the leaders to take propel their
decision making practice to further extent. Therefore, the articles of Caldwell et al. (2012) and
Gandolfi and Stone (2018) are trying to facilitate a right approach that the leaders should follow
in order to bring effectiveness into their leadership development. The article of Caldwell et al.
(2012) put focus on the transformative leadership whereas Gandolfi and Stone (2018) relied on
the servant leadership approach. In this regard, this essay is trying to evaluate and compare those
two articles and finds out significant factors that the current day leaders must follow.
The research of Caldwell et al. (2012) is directly reflected to the concepts of developing a
close connection between the leadership crisis and the urge to develop an effective leadership
quality is pivotal for the benefit of the current leadership practices. There are some important
elements that are responsible to foster a proper transformative leadership. The article advocated
that it is important for the leaders to focus on the principles and ethical considerations that are
referred as important elements for making a good transformative leadership. Moreover, the

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definition of transformative leadership also puts emphasis on the moral duties of the leaders to
encapsulate the interests of the stakeholders. On the other hand, Gandolfi and Stone (2018)
advocated about the servant leadership as one of the important aspect the present day
organisations must follow in order to cope with the difficulties, challenges and complexities in
organisational development. The article puts emphasis on the impact of globalisation on the
current business practice. Form the research of Aljuwaiber (2016) it can be confirmed that
globalisation created a liberal business environment where the geographical barriers were no
longer a problem for the business companies. As a result of that high competitiveness was
inevitable for the organisations and it required proper guidance to survive in the intensely
competitive market (Agu, Anichebe and Maduagwu 2016). Therefore, the importance and
weightage of the leaders have become so much important that their leadership quality determines
the outcome of the future of the business organisation (Mikalauskiene, Streimikiene and
Mulagalejeva 2016). Based on this perception, it can be argued that the article of Gandolfi and
Stone (2018) discussed the importance of servant leadership from the point of view of the
business companies.
Apart from that there is a theoretical perspective that both the articles are emphasised.
Leadership in current situation is discussed as the theme of those articles. However, the
evaluation and the recommendation were completely different in course of making leadership
effective and relevant enough in the current scenario. The article of Caldwell et al. (2012) took
the inference of transformative leadership which is a unique concept and coincided with
pragmatism and relevance. The concept is highly complex and contains a series of important
aspects like the level five leadership, principle centred leadership, servant leadership service,
covenantal leadership, transformational leadership and the charismatic leadership practice. Based

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on this perspective, Banks et al. (216) articulated that the transformational leadership is
considered to be one of the significant leadership practice that current leaders are followed.
Apart from that the servant leadership characteristics and the paradigm of the charismatic
leadership are also important in the context of present day leadership. In course of discussing the
features of the transformative leadership, it can be stated that transformational leadership plays a
significant role in order to influence the transformative leadership. According to Hoch et al.
(2018) the transformational leadership enables the leaders to respect the vision and abilities of
individuals and organisations. A moral foundation is resembled with the transformational
leadership that instigates the four components of good leadership in terms of idealised influence,
inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation and the individual consideration (Dong et al.
2017). Apart from that charismatic leadership practice encourages the followers due to its strong
presence and the supporters follow the leaders blindfolded. The focus and objective of the people
are highly associated with the practice of charismatic leadership. Therefore, the success of the
organisation or an individual is always being secured through the use of charismatic leadership.
Moreover, Level 5 leadership is also imbued into the function of transformative leadership where
it can be stated that the level 5 leadership is liked to perform in shadows without having any
spotlight and giving credit to others for success (Afsar and Umrani 2019). A down to earth
nature of the leaders enables them to make more close to the people and followers.
On the contrary, Gandolfi and Stone (2018) articulated the importance of the servant
leadership in business organisation. In this regard, there are two prominent perspective of
leadership principles prescribed by Seto and Sarros (2016) that are entitled to facilitate
effectiveness into the business practice. The guiding principles are mentioned that anyone can be
leader and leaders are made not born. As a result of that it becomes a significant aspect for

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establishing an equal rights for all the employees to practice their abilities and skills to a great
extent that others will get attracted to. Based on the research of Liden et al. (2015) it can be
stated that the servant leadership is associated with a number of important aspects in terms of
provocative nature, ambitious nature and the driving forces. Those elements are performed
collectively and lead the team to accomplish the objective properly.
The article of Caldwell et al. (2012) trying to assume that the crisis in the present
leadership approach has to be addressed and an effective measure will be mentioned for
resolving the problem. Based on this, understanding, the transformative leadership approach will
be discussed which facilitates a better practice for the leaders to cope with the changing situation.
The adaptability and the nature of the leaders is also discussed within the discussion that is
associated with the core understanding of ethical principles. The research formulates an ethical
approach towards the leadership with close identification over the principles of leadership where
the interests of the stakeholders are identified as one of the important aspects for delivering a
unique and significant deliverance of the leadership. In a conclusion, it was also confirmed that
for delivering an effective and unique leadership in association with the current scenario is
highly crucial for the leaders to consider the important and significance of leadership quality and
guide the people in the right way to get success in every aspects through change and
transformation.
On the other hand, the research of Gandolfi and Stone (2018) is strictly focused on the
business organisations in order to facilitate an effective business practice. The role of the servant
leadership is highly associated with the interests of the employees and their participation in the
organisational progress. As a result of that satisfaction of the employees is always very
important. The role of the servant leadership is resembled with the ethical and moral principles in

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order to make an equal organisational characteristics. In this context, Amanchukwu, Stanley and
Ololube (2015) advocated that the interests and expectation of the employees is always
considered to be the most pertinent factor for the business organisations in order to facilitate a
unique but effective satisfaction measure for the employees. The concept of talent management
is also associated with the practice where the role of the organisation is to retain its skilled and
experienced employees in order to get benefit by their skilled works (Kiersch and Peters 2017).
The servant leadership supplements perfectly the purpose of the organisation to continue hustle
free business practice. In a conclusion, the research article stated that it is highly important for
current business organisations to deliver a fair and transparent practice so that it will create a
good relationship between the organisation and the employees.
Based on the evaluation of above literatures, it can be stated that there are some
differences between the two articles in terms of perception and the way providing a solution. The
research of Caldwell et al. (2012) is coincided with the transformative leadership. The process of
transformative leadership is not an easy task for the leaders to adapt. The complexity of the
leadership characters was reflected into the article. However, the fathom and intensity of the
current situation requires a rigorous and extensive leadership practice that is multi-faceted and
resolving the issues effectively. Therefore, it can be stated that the transformative leadership is
definitely an effective measure for dealing with the magnanimity and complexity of leadership
practices. There are definitely some core concepts associated with the practice of transformative
leadership which are discussed in the article. Those elements are definitely relevant in the current
crisis situation and entitled to deal with the situation adequately.
On the other hand, the article of Gandolfi and Stone (2018) is strictly restricted its
discussion within the context of business organisations. As a result of that there are lack of

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understanding regarding the present leadership scenario in every sphere. The servant leadership
is definitely a great concept and leadership style to implement in business but the moral and
ethical consideration stated in the servant leadership are not enough to resolve the problems
effectively. In the global context the leaders are not only dealt with the organisation and the
employees rather focusing on other stakeholders is also considered to be an important aspect for
the business organisation to ensure the efficacy of workplace culture. Based on this
understanding, it can be stated that the transformative leadership seems more authentic in
compare to the servant leadership practice and will definitely provide a future solution for the
business organisations.
For developing my leadership style, first of all I would like to develop my
communication skills. The development of speaking ability will deliver a unique advantage to
make good relationship with the employees. Based on the research of Mikkelson, York and
Arritola (2015) it can be stated that the communication with the employees or the followers is
identified as one of the pivotal aspect in leadership style. Apart from that focusing on the
personality is also going to be an important part of setting up my leadership style. Newman et al.
(2017) mentioned that personality of the leaders helps to set a positive image of the leaders and
inspires people to choose and follow their leaders.
The above discussion is trying to highlight the importance of leadership is the present
case scenario. It is true that the advent of globalisation makes it critical for the business
organisations to survive in the high competitive market effectively. Therefore, it requires proper
guidance from the leaders and their vision of making things right. Both of the articles are trying
to deliver a relevant and effective leadership character which is strongly provide a strategic
advantage for the business organisations. Both the articles reflected the importance of focusing

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on the employees and considering their interests as it is the core of the organisation to get
strategic advantage. Therefore, the role of the leaders is to facilitate an effective measure with
the help of morale and ethics and formulating a better approach towards the employees to ensure
their satisfaction and interests. It is highly difficult for the leaders to implement and manage a
leadership quality that represents the interests of the employees. However, the transformative
leadership supports this approach effectively. Therefore, it can be argued that the transformative
leadership will be the best practice for the business leaders to practice and safeguarding their
future effectively.

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