Leadership
Transformational leadership
Who is a leader?
Leader is a person who has the capacity to influence other people to accomplish a certain task and directs people in an organisation or a group to achieve its objective in a different way that makes it well-integrated. Leader always establish a clear and long term goal, share the information or ideas with others. According to Jago, Good leaders are made not born. Any people who have the desire and willpower can be an effective leader. Good leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience (Jago, 1982). Leaders tend to possess and exemplify the qualities expected or required in their working groups. Great leaders possess social intelligence, a zest for change, and above all, vision that allows them to set their sights on the "things" that truly merit attention (Scott, 2012).
Leaders influence others to reach goals through their approaches to motivation.
Various leadership styles
Transactional-transformational leadership
Leadership plays a vital role in the operation of organisation and relating its values and goals with its follower to achieve target. That’s why the leadership theories and measurement of leadership are considered with much importance in business context. The meaning and measurement of leadership is changing along with changing time and changing context. The need of broader leadership theories was realised with changing trends in workforce nature, globalised market, emerging technologies, information system, quality management system (Lievens, et al., 1997). This led companies to formulate new working arrangements and better approach to leadership against old theories based on charismatic traits and behaviours. Hence the concepts of transformation leadership arouse and developed as one of the effective way of management systems.
Burns, 1978 was first person to present the idea of transactional and transformation leadership based on what leader offer
Who is a leader?
Leader is a person who has the capacity to influence other people to accomplish a certain task and directs people in an organisation or a group to achieve its objective in a different way that makes it well-integrated. Leader always establish a clear and long term goal, share the information or ideas with others. According to Jago, Good leaders are made not born. Any people who have the desire and willpower can be an effective leader. Good leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience (Jago, 1982). Leaders tend to possess and exemplify the qualities expected or required in their working groups. Great leaders possess social intelligence, a zest for change, and above all, vision that allows them to set their sights on the "things" that truly merit attention (Scott, 2012).
Leaders influence others to reach goals through their approaches to motivation.
Various leadership styles
Transactional-transformational leadership
Leadership plays a vital role in the operation of organisation and relating its values and goals with its follower to achieve target. That’s why the leadership theories and measurement of leadership are considered with much importance in business context. The meaning and measurement of leadership is changing along with changing time and changing context. The need of broader leadership theories was realised with changing trends in workforce nature, globalised market, emerging technologies, information system, quality management system (Lievens, et al., 1997). This led companies to formulate new working arrangements and better approach to leadership against old theories based on charismatic traits and behaviours. Hence the concepts of transformation leadership arouse and developed as one of the effective way of management systems.
Burns, 1978 was first person to present the idea of transactional and transformation leadership based on what leader offer