Essays on Transformational Leadership

Introduction

Effective leadership is the driving force towards innovation in any organization. Leadership changes are necessary for the organizations so that they stay relevant in this competitive market. In this annotated bibliography, I have keenly analysed the relationship between leadership and innovation in organizations. The first article concentrates on transformational leadership, while the second one looks deep into creativity and innovation as aspects of leadership changes.

Article 1

Bass, B.M. (1998). Two Decades of Research and Development in Transformational Leadership. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 8 (1), 9–32. Binghamton, USA.

Type of Article

This article is a research paper. It contains both an ...

Abstract

The paper deals with four main sections of leadership. These include leadership styles, dependency theory of power, expectancy theory of motivation, and performance appraisal in a company. Each section is discussed in details and examples of relevant scenarios given. Mainly, the paper identifies leadership styles in given scenarios, gives an explanation of the dependency and expectancy theories of motivation. Moreover, performance appraisal process in a company has also been discussed.

Key words: leadership styles, power, dependency, expectancy, performance appraisal.

Task 1: leadership styles

Identifying Leadership Styles

Leader A can be categorized as a level 5 leader. This is because he/she has transformed the company to a high ...

Question1. Comment on "Most leaders develop a high exchange relationship with a small number of trusted subordinates who function as assistants, lieutenants or advisers."

Leader, for a long time have been regarded as distinct group of people who are different from their subordinates, assistants or rather advisers. However, from the psychological point of view, leaders have all features of human nature such as social and psychological characteristics. Consequently, most of the leaders, despite their level or class can still relate friendly and cordially with their subordinates. However, this kind of relationship depends on how free the leader is to a certain subordinate or lieutenant (Bass & Riggio, 2006 p 134). Some workers or subordinates are free to interact and joke with their bosses. In such ...

Vision of a Model Research Center

Rachel’s style of leadership in ICCR is definitely a transformational one given that the research center was her idea and all other employees seem to be following her vision. One of the assumptions of this kind of leadership is that it believes that people tend to follow those who inspire them. This is evidenced in Rachel’s leadership as she even has women in her organization looking up to her as a role model. Rachel is also a transformational leader as can be seen by the fact that she believes in injecting energy and enthusiasm into ICCR; this is why she ...