Transformational Leadership Style

             The paper discusses how Transformational Leadership Style type, ISTJ enhances or hinders leadership effectiveness while working as a team. An observer defines leadership as follows: "Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent". (Donald Clark, 1997).

             Transformational leadership stems from George MacGregor Burns (1978) Model of Moral, Transaction & Transformational Leaders. According to Burns an amoral leader cannot be a true leader. In this way he creates dichotomy of morality in leaderships. While a moral leader is a real leader in Burns' eyes an amoral leader is one who exhibits naked power coercion like fascists and dictators and hence viable of becoming infamous. He goes further to classify a moral leader into Transactional and Transformational Leaderships.

             Moral Transactional and Transformational leaderships only differ in their set of peculiar model values. While transactional leadership follows the doctrines of honesty, responsibility, fairness and honoring of ones pledges, Transitional leadership believes in Liberty, Justice, Equality and Collective wellbeing (Burns). Of the sixteen types of Transitional leadership, ISTJ OR the Introvert Sensing Thinking Judging Type is considered to be the most responsible and reliable one.

             TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP.

             According to Burns Theory (1978):.

             "A Transformational Leader recognizes and exploits an existing need or demand of a potential follower, scrutinizes the potentials in his followers, seeks to satisfy higher needs and engages the full persona of the follower." .

             For Burns the aim of transformational leader is to "deal with leadership as distinct from mere power-holding and as the opposite of brute power" (Burns, 1978, Burns Theory Publication, p.4). In this way a transformational leader seeks to develop a relationship not entirely based on power, but also on mutual needs, higher values and aspirations.

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