Criticisms and implications of transformational leadership

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Criticisms and implications of transformational leadership
« on: June 10, 2017, 02:15:33 PM »
Criticisms of Transformational Leadership Theory

Transformational leadership makes use of impression management and therefore lends itself to amoral self promotion by leaders.The theory is very difficult to e trained or taught because it is a combination of many leadership theories. Followers might be manipulated by leaders and there are chances that they lose more than they gain

Implications of Transformational Leadership Theory

The current environment characterized by uncertainty, global turbulence, and organizational instability calls for transformational leadership to prevail at all levels of the organization. The followers of such leaders demonstrate high levels of job satisfaction and organizational commitment, and engage in organizational citizenship behaviors. With such a devoted workforce, it will definitely be useful to consider making efforts towards developing ways of transforming organization through leadership.