Characteristics Of Transactional Leadership

1 Transformational leadership and transactional leadership often occur in the same organization. How do they impact each other? Do you see these styles in your organization?

Transactional leadership focuses on the concept of exchanging rewards or punishment between the leader and his or her followers. For instance, if a follower accomplishes a goal, the leader may praise the follower with a pay raise or bonus. While, transformational leadership is designed around the process of both the leader and followers working together to increase motivation and morality within the group. When these two forms of leadership are combined in one organization they may have a positive impact on the organization and its employees. The leader and followers

The leader empowers his or her group and provides them with the traits and morals to become the best they can be. Many of the traits of servant leadership have a spiritual dimension to them such as, healing, awareness, persuasion, commitment to the growth of people, and building community. Each of these traits is geared towards gaining awareness of a persons or communities highest potential. The leader uses these traits to understand his or her followers to the fullest, giving them the knowledge to serve the great good of followers, the organization, the community, and society as a whole. (Northhouse, 2013) Spirituality and ethical behavior are related in the aspect that both are concerned with what is best for everyone involves, not just ones

Are employee concerns the best way to determine what’s “really going on” in the organization? Why?

In past decades, many of organizations have been blinded of what really goes on within the company. In order to determine what is happening behind closed doors it is important to gain respect and trust from all involved within the organization. Also building ethics and morals within the employees of an organizations will give the leader and/or owner a better idea of what is really taking place behind their back.

5 How do virtual teams differ from face to face teams? How do the leadership needs of virtual teams differ from face to face teams?

Virtual teams differ from face to face teams in the aspect of communication. Face to face teams work with each other on a daily basis, gaining a full understanding of each individuals full personality. While virtual teams communicate through messaging and webcam, creating a bit of a communication hardship. In a virtual team the leader portrays a message and relies one his or her follower to understand and complete the task or ask for additional assistance. With a face-to-face team the leader is physically there to read his or her followers body language and visually see if a follower is