What is the difference between transactional and transformational leadership?

What will be an ideal response?


Burns characterized leadership as either transactional leadership (when one person takes the
initiative, making contact with others for the purpose of the exchange of valued things) or transformational leadership (when one or more persons engage with others in a way that the leader and nonleader raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality). The function
of transactional leadership is to ensure compliance of subordinates through contingent rewards
(such as praise) and punishment in order to maintain the organization’s operations and goals,
rather than to change it. Transformational leadership, on the other hand, focuses on the three
behavior patterns of charisma, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration to
inspire employees to be the best they can be. Tichy and Ulrich (1984) presented the
transformational leader as the model for future leadership excellence. They cited three
identifiable activities associated with transformational leadership: creation of vision (view of a
future state, mobilization of commitment), acceptance of a new mission, and institutionalization of change (new patterns of behavior must be adopted).

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