Transformational Leadership and performance

7. Transformational Leadership and performance

 

Leadership is the ability to influence others to achieve goals (Hughes et al.,1996). The style of leadership could impact employee satisfaction, commitment of employees to work and ultimately to the entire performance of an organization.

Although there are a number of leadership styles, transformational leadership could impact the performance of the employees most. Transformational leadership style concentrates on the development of followers as well as their needs.(Nanjundeswaraswamy and Swamy, 2014)  Through four behaviors (i.e. idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual simulation and individualized consideration), transformational leaders can change members behaviors, encouraging them to exceed expectations.(Bass, 1985). Following qualities of transformational leaders help organizations;

7.1 Relationship oriented

 They encourage strong relationships with the other employees so that the employees feel a sense of security and bond towards the organization. This relationship conveys the employees the link among their individual performance on overall goals of the organization which makes the employees contribute more on achieving organizational goals.

7.2. Motivate employees

Transformational leaders could motivate employees to align them for achieving of organizational goals beyond their own self-interest. They make the followers have an increased degree of satisfaction and performance above the expected level (Imran et al., 2012).

7.3. Self-Confident

Transformational leaders are self-confident on what they believe that they can achieve for the organization and decisions they take for that. This confidence motivates employees to have a belief on what they are going to achieve.

7.4. Good Communicators

They can communicate their ideas, vision to the employees in all levels of the organization. A better communication makes employees understand what is expected of them in achieving the desired performance.

7.5. Create a performance driven culture

Transformational Leaders are the ones who articulate organization culture by setting the values and beliefs, guiding the appropriate employee behavior and reinforcing rewards and sanctions (Imran et al., 2012)

7.6. Encourage outside the box thinking

They encourage the followers to be creative when finding solutions for the obstacles that they face when achieving organizational goals. 

For Example according to Lee and Liu (2008) in Electronic Information industry in Taiwan it has been observed that The leadership style has a positive relationship on organizational innovation performance, and the leadership style moderates the relationship between organizational innovation capability and organizational innovation performance

Conclusion

In conclusion it can be identified with all the above qualities Transformational leadership could positively impact the performance of an organization.

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