Influence of Transformational Leadership: Driving Individual and Organisational Effectiveness

Abstract

Leadership and motivation are like two sides of a coin. The study made to comprehend the importance of transformational leadership and will try to lead in a path of understanding the most famous transformational leadership style. Later this paper discuss about the comparison of transformational leadership with its counterpart. James McGregor Burns (1978) conceptualized leadership as either transactional or transformational.  As the author highlighted, politicians as example, direct by “exchanging one thing for another: jobs for votes, or subsidies for campaign contributions” (p.4). Transformational leaders seek overtly to transform the organisation by volunteering the organisation itself to initiate the change. The wonder of transformational leadership is making the followers its “Product”. As solitary of the traps of transformational leadership is that fervour and self-belief without doubt it could be mistaken for genuineness and veracity. Just because someone think that they are right, that doesn’t means they are. Transformation can be achieved only through consistent motivation to the target group, in which the leader is expecting a change. If the change expected in any organisation is to ameliorate the effectiveness, then transformational leadership is a perfect strategy to be incorporated.