Essay - Leadership in the Work Place Leadership in the Workplace Leadership...

leadership in the work place

***** in the Workplace

Leadership is still seen to be important in today's society, but it is changing and evolving quite a lot. One of the main forms of leadership now that is seen in 'st*****ard' businesses and also in care-related ***** (or service businesses) such as nursing is transactional leadership. Since it ***** used in the nursing pr*****ession ***** well, ***** is ***** to discuss this type of leadership here bef*****e moving on ***** a more specific discussion of nursing.

In 2001, Marion and Uhl-Bien wrote an essay which foc***** on leadership research throughout the latter half of the most recent century and Hunt (1999) discussed the 1970s and 1980s as being a period ***** gloom and doom which was characterized by many critics that claimed research into ***** did not tell individuals enough and had outlived the usefulness that it once *****. However, many individuals ***** see research ***** leadership as ***** significant and important.

Transformational leaders are those ***** have and articulate a vision regarding the future that *****y can share with subordinates and peers; they stimulate their subordinates intellectually and pay attention to the many differences ***** make people *****. In addition to this they utilize ***** personal resources ***** and serve as a teacher, coach, and mentor to many individuals in their organization (Yammarion & Bass, 1990; Yukl, 1989). It has been noted ***** many researchers that transformational leaders engage ***** followers fully and look to satisfy needs of a higher order which allows them to ***** ***** ***** in order ***** help shape the future.

In contrast to the ***** leader, transactional *****s look to exchange various rewards which are contingent upon ***** performance of others and they use positional ***** in order to get the behaviors that they desire (Bass, 1985). T***** is not a specific ***** generally accepted set regarding contextual factors that are available for studying both transactional and transformational leadership, however, *****s of various contextual factors ***** be derived by examining the literature of many individuals (Merton, 1957; Burns & Stalker, 1961; Yukl, 1989; Ho*****, 1991; ***** & Avolio, 1994).

***** organizations that are public are involved with contracts as well as traditions and norms in various departments and therefore change most often occurs in these organizations because there are political trade-offs ***** much of the leadership that these ***** have is transactional (Lowe, Kroeck, & Sivasubram*****iam, 1996). It has ***** ***** argued by various researchers that the most important function of bureaucracy is to replace the influence ***** individuals have with rules, policies, and procedures (*****use, Spangler, & Woycke, 1991; Pillai, 1995). Leader *****, however, are most often shaped ***** framed through ***** existence of organizational culture and the influence that it has on behavior (Ammeter, Douglas, Gardner, Hochwarter, ***** Ferris, 2002).

Culture is also very important where leadership ***** c*****rned. Defining culture is ***** important and the most comprehensive definiti***** of culture ***** adapted from Schein (1992) and states that culture should be