The Transformational leadership is a style of leadership in which head leaders and their followers help each other to raise or promote to higher levels of motivation, job-morality, and morality (Bass, 2006). The pros transformational leadership are highly effective as it maintains a positive environment for followers.
Pro’s
• Transformational leadership focuses a lot on honesty, and this helps focus one's interest correctly in defining a job.
• It emphasizes on the higher human values such as ethics.
• It increases the survivability of a system.
• It has been proved in certain researches that cooperation as compared to competition contributes more in achieving the target.
• The style of Transformational leadership is adaptive and can be customized according to the needs of people.
• There is the higher stability of leadership as there is higher support by the ones who are being led.
• Transformational leadership is very helpful in maintaining peace in the situations that could be aggravated by an irritable organization.
• Transformational leadership is very successful in forming an educated environment (Bass, 2006).
Con's
• If followers are enthusiastic to do their task it does not assure that a task will be successful. Over-enthusiasm by the leadership may raise certain objections.
• People get more dependent on the leader.
• Members may feel that their abilities are being restricted.
• Some people may think that they are pushed to their limits are everyone possesses a different personality.
• Some people may do better tasks than others which will lead to weak unity.
• People may want to "go along to get along" where it is hard to differentiate between cooperation and conformity.
• Extra pressure may be put on the leader.
• The ups and downs may challenge the abilities of the leader (Bass, 2006).
Transformational Leadership’s pro’s are highlighted by many studies conducted, and many positive results are seen as a result of this leadership style in reality. I am of the view that transformation leadership is better than other leadership styles as empirical evidence has highlighted that transformational leadership is positively connected with organization performance, job satisfaction, survivability, and job performance. Those who have applied this form of leadership have been more successful such as Steve Jobs (Apple). I strongly believe that its pro’s overweigh its con’s. However, there should be clarity in the leadership role and followers must understand their responsibilities and the role of leadership in achieving better results under this form of leadership (Smith, 2016).
References
Bass, B. M. (2006). Transformational leadership. Abingdon: Psychology Press.
Smith, R. (2016). The Impact of Transformational Leadership Behaviors on Work Performance of Omani Civil Service Agencies. Asian Social Science, 12 (3), 152.
