Question

Case Five   Leadership

In your role of Vice-President of Human Resources at ABC Inc., you have recently joined an organization that requires rapid change to compete in the marketplace.  You have heard the senior management team comment that your firm requires a strong leader to transform your culture.  

Question:

• You have been asked to prepare a five–point report to improve the understanding of transformational leadership (including a definition of leadership in general) and why it may benefit your organization.

Answer 1

Leadership: Leadership is defined as the art of motivating a group of people to work to achieve common goals.

Transformational Leadership:

It is a leadership style in which leaders motivate, encourage and inspire employees to innovate and make a change that will help to grow and future success of the company.

Transformational Leadership will benefit the organization in the following ways:

• Transformational leaders quickly analyze the company's current situation and create the right vision for its growth and improvement.
• Transformational leaders lower staff turnover or employee turnover by making them more engaged and included in the organization.
• This leadership style focuses on the positive impact of change and tells the employees to contribute to it. This makes easier for employees to accept the change and enjoy it.
• Transformational leaders tend to be driven by values and focussed on ethics, which encourages the employees to be straight and narrow and act in the best interest of the organization.
• Transformational leaders are excellent communicators. Whenever the company has a communication problem, the transformational leader articulates the corporate message clearly to the employees to remind them of what is expected to be done.
• Transformational leaders give freedom to their employees rather than putting control over them.