Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Authority
Control over
Expertise
rewards
Power
• Transactional leadership
– traditional management through business
transactions in which leaders use their
legitimate, reward, and coercive powers to give
commands and exchange rewards for services
rendered
– dispassionate leadership that does not inspire
people to focus on the interests of the
organization
Contemporary Perspectives On
Leadership
• Transformational leadership
– moves beyond transactional leadership
– a leader who transforms a vision into reality
and motivates people to transcend their
personal interests for the good of the group
Contemporary Perspectives On Leadership
• Transformational leadership (cont.)
– Generating excitement - three ways
• they are charismatic
• provide individualized attention
• they are intellectually stimulating
– Skills and strategies - rely on four
• have a vision
• communicate their vision
• build trust
• have a positive self-regard
– Transforming leaders - training available to
stimulate transformational leadership