C (2003), leadership is an interpersonal influence directed towards the achievement of a goal or goals. Realising its important in today’s social and work environment, it is more critical than ever for us to understand the type of leadership and its role. There are several types of leadership, namely transformational leadership or charismatic leadership and transactional leadership. Transformational Leadership One of the most popular theory of transformational leadership is the one that come up by Bernard Bass (1990). Bass said that transformational leaders motivate followers by making them more aware of the importance of task outcomes, inducing them to transcend their own self-interest for the sake of the organization or team and also activating their higher-order needs.
NVQ level 3 Unit 302 1.Explain what reflective practice is Reflective practice means: we explore why and who we practice; thinking back over a situation or activity; developing a different approach; gaining insight into a new way of learning. 2.Explain the importance of reflective practice in continuously improving the quality of service provided Reflective practice is important because we can focus on what has worked well and what needs to be improved. Helps us develop greater self-awareness and consider new approaches and learning. And enable a different approach to be applied. 3.Explain how standards inform reflective practice in adult social care Standards inform reflective practice by informing own learning, helping one to think about professional accountability, enabling professional development, providing a way of identifying what is required for good practice.
The purpose of Kark et al. (2003) is to investigate the relationship between transformational behavior of leaders and followers’ dependence (Kark, et al., 2003). Also, suggesting the relationship between the leaders’ transformational behaviors and followers’ dependence is interceding by followers’ relationship with the work group (Kark, et al., 2003). Dvir, et al (2002) focuses more on the positive impact of
Application of Transformational Leadership Transformational leadership provides what is typical of leadership who work in transforming context, a general way of thinking about leadership that’s focus on ideals, inspiration, innovations and individual concern. But it does not provide a clearly defined set of assumptions about what they should do in particular situation to be successful. Bass and Avolio (1990) suggested that transformational leadership can be taught to all people in organization, can be used in recruitment, selection and promotion and learning development. Also used in improving team effectiveness, decision making groups, quality enhancement and reorganization. People can use questionnaire to profiling leader’s strength and
The apprehension of the management team is understood because that is the culture; however, once the functionality is implemented and the management team sees the growth and positive change, the company will be more adapt to change. The project management consultant’s strategies to convince the Levon management team to accept and move forward with the change required realistic information to be presented, as well as for the team to be shown where they can
The leaders shies away from attention and gives credit to the success towards leaders in the organization. Executive A is also quick to accept responsibility for mistakes and poor results. Executive A also believes the company will go on without them, and is developing leaders within to promote succession plans. Leader B appears to be more closely aligned with the traits of a transactional leader. Transactional leaders guide or motivate their followers in the direction of the established goals by clarifying roles and task assignments (Robbins & Judge 2007).
They focused on the ethical foundations of each perspective. Transformative leadership requires a personal transformation of self and the ability to reframe how one views the world (Quinn, 1996). Transformative leaders create integrated organizations systems that add value, enhances life and benefit society. Charismatic Leadership creates a leader-follower
Before we go further, we need to define and understand what change agent is. Change agent can be defined as people who take action to change the behavior of people and systems (Schermerhorn, Osborn, Hunt, & Uhl-Bien, 2012). Therefore, the leader must be able to transform by improving the habit of people and environment to the better one. As we go through all those leaderships theory, we had identify that transformational leadership theory is the most applicable to be as change agent.This can be proved by Dionne et al,. (2003) revealed that transformational leadership positively affects team communication, cohesion and conflict management.
The management of people and the distribution of task are not needed in this form of leadership. Thought leaders are making continuous efforts to create change in their organization by creating innovative ideas. The leader in this model does not have a responsibility to others and does not need the trust of the organization. However, the leaders’ ideas need to be comprehensible so others will support their ideas. While this may be true, those lacking relationship building skills can also demonstrate thought leadership.
Analyzing Michael Saul Dell as Leader in the Context of Transformational Leadership Theory Transformational leadership works when leaders set out to empower followers and nurture them in creating change. They act as role models for their followers, listen to them and make them have a vision (which is a focal point for transformational leadership). Northouse (2007), pp. 189 – 190 Moving on to analyze the extent to which Michael Dell’s leadership style explains the theory of Transformational Leadership using the four factors and other characteristics of the theory will help to ascertain if indeed ‘Transformational Leadership is an effective form of leadership’. (Yukl, 1999 in Northouse, 2007), pp.