Monday, October 27, 2025

Short Notes: LEADERSHIP IN THE ORGANISATION: A Conceptual Review (October 2018)

 Leadership is a must.  Hence there exists the need for a leader who can understand and handle the complexity and challenges of the world.  Thus arise the need for the leader to always improve the quality of their knowledge relating to leadership. Leader is a must figura in an organisation who has to know the clear vision and how to achieve goals.  Leadership is one of the most significant branch of management.


Transactional Leadership 

- emphasises the clarification of goals and work standards 

- focuses on tasks completion and employee compliance 

- the leaders rely quite heavily on organisational rewards and punishments to influence employees performance 

- motivate subordinates through the use contingent rewards, corrective actions and rule of enforcement 

- also capable of giving punishments for poor effort or unsatisfied outcomes 

- the thing is, this type of leadership causes short-term relationships between leaders and subordinates 


Transformational Leadership 

- leaders uphold the interests of employees 

- encourages subordinates, provides inspiration and motivation for subordinates to innovate and create positive change 

- this type of leadership creates long term relationships between leaders and subordinates 

- leader becomes a figure that is admired and imitated by the subordinates 

- subordinates are given space for expressing thoughts, and able to develop their thinking towards the future 

- they prioritise teamwork 



Reference 

researchgate.net

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