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LEADERSHIP THEORY
Dayo Odukoya
What is Transactional Leadership?
Focused Favor
structured
on short-
policies and
term goals procedures
Characteristics of Transactional
Leadership Style
Thrive on
following
rules and
Revel in
doing things efficiency
correctly
Characteristics of Transactional
Leadership Style
Inflexible Fixated
Tend to Opposed
be to
inflexible change
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
OF TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP
Advantages of Transactional
Leadership Style
Reward Self Motivation Structure
Rewards
those who Provides an
unambiguous
are self- structure
motivated
Advantages of Transactional
Leadership Style
Quick Achievement Clear Penalties
Does not
Creativity reward
is limited personal
initiative
More?
CLASSICAL TRANSACTIONAL
LEADERS
TRANSACTIONAL QUOTES
“When placed in
command, take charge.”
- Norman Schwarzkopf:
“The first rule of any technology used in a
business is that automation applied to an
efficient operation will magnify the efficiency.
The second is that automation applied to an
inefficient operation will magnify the
inefficiency.”
- Bill Gates
Transformational
Leadership Theory
Dayo Odukoya
Origin
Leadership is recognised as
an interactive process,
which transforms both
leaders and followers
resulting in positive
organisational outcomes
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The Four Components of Transformational
Leadership
Leader is
Leader challenges concerned with the
organisational personal and
norms; the leader professional
encourages development of
subordinates to be subordinates; acts
creative and as mentor or
innovative coach; consults
with subordinates
BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
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Basic Characteristics of Transformational
Leadership
Inspirational Mobilization
transformational
leaders raise the They are
well-being and
motivation level
also good
of a group at conflict
through excellent resolution
rapport
Basic Characteristics of Transformational
Leadership
Transformational Transformational
leadership achieves leaders have
its effects through
followers' their greatest
identification with the influence on
leader (personal followers
identification) and
with the work through their
group/organisation personality and
(social identification) behaviour
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TRANSFORMATIONAL
LEADERSHIP AND OTHER LEADERSHIP STYLES
Differences between transformational
leadership and other leadership styles
Transformational Transactional
Work to Work
change within the
the system system
Differences between transformational
leadership and other leadership styles
Transformational Transactional
Wanting to Want to
know the
know what
step-by-step
has to approach
change
Differences between transformational
leadership and other leadership styles
Transformational Transactional
Maximizing
Minimize
their teams’
variation of
capability
the
and
organization
capacity
Differences between transformational
leadership and other leadership styles
Transformational Transactional
Solve Solve
challenges by
finding challenges
experiences by fitting
that show that experiences
old patterns do
not fit or work to a known
pattern
Differences between transformational
leadership and other leadership styles
Transformational Transactional
is a is a
“selling” “telling”
style style
ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES OF
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP STYLE
Works well in
Excellent
organizations at
where communic
change is
ating new
needed
ideas
Advantages of Transformational
Leadership Style
Good at Good at
establishing building
mutual strong
trust coalitions
Advantages of Transformational
Leadership Style
Integrity Empathy
They have
They high
have emotional
intelligence
integrity (empathy)
Disadvantages of Transformational
Leadership Style
Ineffective
in initial Require
stage or ad- an Bad fit in
bureaucratic
hoc existing
situations structures
[needs time] structure
Classical Transformational
Leaders
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