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Liturature Review: Transactional Vs Transformational Leadership

RMIT International University Vietnam
Bachelor of Commerce Program

INSTRUCTOR: M. BELINDA PRIBIL

TRANSACTIONAL VESUS TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Student name: Nguyen Song Thien Ha
Student ID: S3168995


TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 4

BODY 5
Literature review 5
1. Leadership
2. Transactional leadership 5
3. Transformational leadership 6
Transformation process 5
4. Transactional leadership versus transformational leadership 6
5. Effective and situational aspects of transactional and
transformational leadership 8
Reflection 9
Action plan 11
1. Learning Activities 11
2. Detailed Action Plans 13

REFERENCES 16

INTRODUCTION

Leadership is a broad and controversy term. This report focuses on transactional and transformational leadership. Each form has its own characteristics which can be advantages in some situations but can be disadvantages under other cases. It depends on the environment, on the leader’s attitudes, the followers’ attitudes and the expected relationship between them.
Thus the differences between them will be theoretically clarified in this report to serve for deciding which leadership form is more appropriate. An action plan and a writer’s reflection on the theory are also attached after the literature review.

LITERATURE REVIEW
1. Leadership

When mentioning leadership, what often come to people minds are an individual leader, extreme power, high responsibility, orders and respect from others. In most documentation, leadership is considered to be a broad term that involves leaders, followers, influence process, goals, tasks, people and changes.
“The world is changing, and so is our concept of leadership” (McShane S & Travaglione, T 2007). They informed that a “consensus” has been reached from thirty eight countries that “leadership is...