Blog Entry # 4: Transactional and Transformational Leadership

Definitions Transactional leadership is a leadership style which motivates followers through the use of tangible rewards and punishments (Webster and Webster n.d.). Also known as the “managerial leadership”, it focuses on supervision, organisation, and group performance (Lea 2019). Transactional leadership incentivises good performance while also penalizing bad ones (Ingram 2019). “If words of command are not clear and distinct,

Blog Entry # 3: Transformational Leadership, Charisma, and Motivation

Encourage, inspire, and motivate. These are the usual words we see around the term transformational leadership. The term was first conceptualized by sociologist James Downton in 1973, popularized by James MacGregor Burns in his 1978 book Leadership, and further developed by Bernard Bass to what is now the modern transformational leadership theory. In a nutshell,