LEADERSHIP STYLE AND MOTIVATION

Leadership Style and Motivation

Leadership Style and Motivation

Introduction

Transformational leadership consists of four components: charisma or idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration. Furthermore, transformational leaders pursue three fundamental goals: to assist staff in developing and maintaining a collaborative, professional organizational culture; to foster development of professional growth; and to help staff members solve problems more effectively by engaging them in new activities and requiring from them an appurtenant effort (Conger, 2008).

For me, there are two fundamental goals of transformational leadership, the first being to assist staff development and maintain a collaborative, professional school culture by ...