Transformational And Transactional Leadership Effects On Communication Styles

These leadership styles are almost polar opposites of one another with employees in the transactional leadership style motivated by rewards and benefits and employees in the transformational style motivated by their charismatic managers.

Transformational and transactional leadership effects on communication styles. Results indicate that idealised influence as perceived transformational leadership style had an effect on all four communication styles. 1 0 introduction leadership is perhaps one of the most important aspects of management weihrich et al 2008. Culture finance and behavioral aspects. Conversely in transformational leadership leader lays stress on the values beliefs and needs of his followers.

Transactional leadership and transformational leadership are two key styles who gain immense importance from past few decades. Namely preciseness verbal aggressiveness emotionality and. This paper examines transformational and transactional leadership styles and discusses how they impact organizational performance in the following dimensions. In transactional leadership leader is lays stress on his relationship with followers.

Leadership is one of the key roles used in any organization. Transformational and transactional leadership. Transactional leadership is reactive whereas transformational leadership is proactive. Results indicate that idealised influence as perceived transformational leadership style had an effect on all four communication styles.

The employees completed measures consisting of the communication styles inventory as well as the transformational and transactional leadership styles scales. We utilised step wise multiple regression analyses to predict communication styles from transformational and transactional leadership styles. James macgregor burns who studied political leaders like roosevelt and kennedy first described these two distinct styles of leadership in his 1978 book leadership he used the word transforming rather than transformational both terms are used here and they mean the same. Leadership transactional leadership transformational leadership charismatic leadership.

Transformational leadership style had an effect on all four communication styles. Namely preciseness verbal aggressiveness emotionality. Transformational leadership on the other hand is a leadership approach that causes change in individuals bass 1990. Transformational leadership is a leadership style in which the leader uses his charisma and enthusiasm to influence his followers.

Namely preciseness verbal aggressiveness emotionality and impression manipulativeness.