This web poster focused a bit on the differences between transformational and transactional leadership. This is an important concept that we've visited in this class and in other classes as well. Transformational leaders are those who take leadership as a motivational role, trying to get the best out of their subordinates. Transactional leaders take more of a supervisor role, trying to manage and control specific behaviors.
This is similar to the concepts of effective change management. Transactional leadership is based on rewards and punishments, but these only change short term behaviors. For effective change to take place, there must be an unfreezing phase... which necessitates transforming of fundamentals. Once these changes have been in place, rewards may be put in place to positively reinforce these behaviors and "refreeze" the change. So basically, transformational leadership is necessary to generate sustainable change.
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So what I understand about your comments on Transactional Leadership and the the abilities to create effective changes is that you need to "unfreeze" the established conditions; behaviors; attitudes; and then create the rewards that will maintain the new changes. But then the Transactional Leader needs to "re-freeze" these changes in order to keep the changes in place. I guess the question is, how do you thaw and freeze the changes without spoiling them? Your descriptors on the Transactional Leadership styles make for an interesting illustration. Great job!
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