Transformational Leadership

Lynn Y. Calbert & James WinterUniversity of Southern CaliforniaEDUC: 524 Leadership

Dr. Meg Palisoc

Transformational Leaders

Transformational vs. transactional leadership

Bennis and Nanus’ levels of

Transformational Leadership

1. Transforming leaders had a clear vision of the future state of their organization.

2. Transforming leaders are social architects for their organizations.

3. Transformational leaders created trust in their organizations.

4. Transforming leaders use creative deployment of self through positive self-regard.

Transformational Strengths

1. Transformational Leadership has been widely researched from many different perspectives…2.Transformational Leadership has intuitive appeal. It describes how the leader is out front advocating change for others.3. Transformational Leadership treats leadership as a process that occurs between followers and leaders.4.Transformational approach provides a broader view of leadership that augments other leadership models.5. Transformational leadership places a strong emphasis on followers’ needs, values, and morals.6. Finally, there is substantial evidence that transformational leadership is an effective form of leadership.

Transformational weaknesses

In addition to its strengths, there are weaknesses as well.1. Transformational leadership lacks conceptual clarity.2. Another criticism revolves around how ransformational leadership is measured.3.Transformational leadership treats leadership as a personality trait or personal predisposition rather than a behavior that people can learn.4. Researchers have not established that transformational leaders are actually able to transform individuals and organizations (Antonakis, 2012).5. transformational leadership may also come off as elitist and anti-democratic.6. Finally, transformational leadership has the potential to be abused.

Outcomes, Tasks and Characteristics

Charismatic vs. Transformational

Leadership

Pseudo Transformational

Leadership

ReferencesGoogle Pictures. Retrieved from the internet on June 26, 2015 and July 5, 2015.Ignite Countdown Video (2013). Daryl R. Lundy Video Designs, Placentia, CA.Northouse, P. (2013). Transformational Leadership. Leadership: Theory and Practice (Chapter 8). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.