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Strenght of Transformational Leadership

Transformational leaders stand out in their ability to quickly analyze a company's current situation and create a righteous vision for its improvement and growth. Through passion and influence, the leader communicates her vision to employees to get everyone on board. Employees are motivated to do what is asked of them because the whole work experience is perceived as a purposeful and enjoyable adventure.

In terms of bottom-line results, the organization should see productivity gains when a transformational leader comes on board. It's much easier to optimize performance when everyone is pulling in the same direction, as all people can see the big picture and feel united in a common cause.

Weaknesses of Transformational Leadership

First is the ambiguity underlying its influences and processes. The theory fails to explain the interacting variables between transformational leadership and positive work outcomes. The theory would be stronger if the essential influence processes were identified more clearly and used to explain how each type of behavior affects
each type of mediating variable and outcome.
Secondly is the overemphasis of the theory on leadership processes at the dyadic level. The major interest is to explain a leader’s direct influence over individual followers, not leader influence on group or organizational processes.

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