Leadership

International Journal of Social Science & Interdisciplinary Research__________________________________ ISSN 2277 3630

IJSSIR, Vol. 2 (3), MARCH (2013)

Online available at indianresearchjournals.com

TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP APPROACH IN

ORGANISATIONS

-ITS STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES

SURESH. A*; RAJINI. J**

*RESEARCH SCHOLAR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT,

KAKATIYA UNIVERSITY, WARANGAL AND WORKING AS A FACULTY IN COMMERCE & BUSINESS

MANAGEMENT IN UNIVERSITY ARTS AND SCIENCE COLLEGE, SUBEDARI, WARANGAL .

**WORKING AS A FACULTY IN COMMERCE & BUSINESS MANAGEMENT IN UNIVERSITY ARTS AND

SCIENCE COLLEGE, SUBEDARI, WARANGAL .

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Introduction

Leadership has been described as “a process of social influence in which one person can enlist

the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task". Leadership is

"organizing a group of people to achieve a common goal". The leader may or may not have any

formal authority. Students of leadership have produced theories involving traits, situational

interaction, function, behavior, power, vision and values, charisma, and intelligence, among

others. Somebody whom people follow: somebody who guides or directs others.The role every

manager must fill in the workplace is leadership. Managers often make the mistake of assuming

that because they are the managers, they are also the leaders and that their associates will

automatically follow. In reality, position only denotes title, not leadership. Peter Northouse

(2001) defines leadership as a process whereby one individual influences a group of individuals

to achieve a common goal. To be an effective leader, the manager must influence his associates

in a positive way to reach the goals of the organization. There are three types of leadership

approaches. They are

1) Transactional Leadership: It focuses on the exchanges that occur between leaders and...