Leadership: The Characteristics Of Transformational And Transactional Leadership

Introduction Having an organization to accomplish a goal shows effective team work, dedication, and most importantly strong leadership. Having an efficient leader is not only vital to an organization, but imperative. In order for one to become a great leader he or she must be able to understand ethical influence, motivate their employees, know the importance of a vision, and executing that vision to consummate the organization’s goal. By achieving such, not only does it show the true abilities of the leader, but it shows the organization’s attainment. The ability to lead requires an integrative approach to them understanding their leadership qualities and how they must use those qualities to get their employees to adapt and grow to accept

They are both equally important in order to help leaders increase competitiveness. Transactional leaders tend to rely on giving rewards to keep employees focused on their tasks. With transformational leaders they tend to focus on the health of the organization and each individual employee, which in return benefits the longevity. The transactional method of leadership is far more intransigent, and can tear an employee down as well as uplift. It seems that by utilizing transformational leadership it helps to build more of a collaborative effort which can improve the culture and performance of the organization. On the other hand, utilizing transactional leadership is more effective based on economic change on an organizational level. The strategies that our group chose to invoke in regards with transformational leadership, is to make sure that leaders focus on developing employees, create future visions regarding status quo, and look ahead at establishing new purposes. Transactional is a little different, we recommend focusing in more on the tasks at hand, better explaining expectations to employees, solving problems immediately, and re-evaluate the reward process. Maintaining competitive strategies such as innovative differentiation, and marketing differentiation will also help to impact the organization and should be easy to