Transactional vs. transformational leadership

Essay aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich BWL - Unternehmensführung, Management, Organisation, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Leadership plays a critical role towards the attainment of specific objectives and goals of particular organizations as going concerns. It is common to find at work places more than one leadership approaches being applicable sometimes knowingly while others may not necessarily take care of the leadership approaches being employed. This essay has been able to identify some of the leadership approaches which concurrently take place at organizations and made clear distinction between transactional and transformational leadership, looking at their characteristics and how they relate to each other. Care has been taken not to confuse pseudo transformational leadership with the needed employee or the regarded authentic transformational leader.