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Introduction
Leader approaches significantly affect the way employees experience satisfaction and
perform their tasks and maintain flexibility at work. Research about various leadership
approaches exists in vast quantities within studies of organizational psychology and
management. The author relies on Bass's Transformational Leadership Theory to verify the study
hypotheses through this chapter. This part includes an explanation of leadership style and
employee outcome relationships using a theoretical model together with theory specification and
theory connection.
Theory Specification: Transformational Leadership Theory
Transformational Leadership Theory (Bass, 1985) serves as the primary theoretical
framework for this study. According to the theory transformational leaders make their employees
more satisfied with their work while they achieve better outcomes through inspiration and
motivational techniques and intellectual development(Ytterstad & Olaisen, 2023). This
leadership type differs from transactional leadership which operates through dependent
exchanges of rewards.
Background and Development of the Theory
The concept of Transformational Leadership Theory came from Burns (1978) when he
studied political leadership but later Bass (1985) adapted it to work with organizational settings.
Bass established the fundamental four features that enable transformational leadership to occur.
1. Idealized Influence (Charisma): Leaders serve as role models and earn the trust and
respect of employees.
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2. Inspirational Motivation: Leaders articulate a clear vision and inspire employees to
commit to organizational goals.
3. Intellectual Stimulation: Leaders encourage innovation and critical thinking among
employees.
4. Individualized Consideration: Leaders provide personalized mentorship and support to
employees.
Transactional leadership implements reward-punishment mechanisms as a performance-
based system that focuses on structures without intrinsic motivation (Mbindyo et al., 2021)
Theory Connection: Relationship Between Leadership Style and Employee Outcomes
Hypotheses in this study stem from Transformational Leadership Theory that provides
support regarding role of leadership style in employee job satisfaction, work quality and
adaptability. Inspirational, motivational, individualized, consideration, and idealized influence
are the transformational leaders characterized by inspirational motivation, intellectual
stimulation, and individualized consideration. Thus, these mechanisms are more positive than
transactional leadership mechanisms that emphasize structured rewards, compliance, and
monitoring of performance.
Hypothesis 1: Employees who work for a transformational manager produce a higher
quality of work than employees who work for a transactional manager.
Theoretical Justification: Transformational leadership fosters an environment of intrinsic
motivation, creativity, and innovation. Transformational leaders encourage employees to think
critically, problem solve, and take initiative and then they are able to achieve higher work quality
and engagement. The key point of intellectual stimulation because employees are empowered to
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think new approaches and to challenge old processes. On the other side, transactional leadership
bases on extrinsic motivation (contingent reward and punishment), so allergic to creativity and
long term innovation (Saad Alessa, 2021).
Transformational leaders can make employees feel more purposeful and responsible,
boosting their commitment to high quality work through delivering it. When transactional
leadership is used, employees do complete their transactional task well, but may become
demotivated and ultimately stagnate through in any performance improvements.
Hypothesis 2: Workers who are supervised by a transformational manager are more job-
satisfied than workers supervised by a transactional manager.
Two key processes by which transformational leadership leads to job satisfaction have
been postulated as mechanisms of action: individualized consideration and idealized influence.
As a result, employees’ emotional well-being and organizational commitment increases (Hill,
Kang, and Seo, 2014). An inclusive and fulfilling work place is fostered, which includes when
leaders are truly concerned about the professional growth and personal development of
employees.
Transactional leadership, on the other hand, relies on performance-based rewards and
punishments (Ladkin & Patrick, 2022). This short term approach may lead to short term
compliance and short term efficiency while the intrinsic motivation and job contentment will
decline subsequently. They may be disconnected from the organization’s vision and therefore
less engaged with the job.
Additional Considerations
Transformational leadership provides their employees with the flexibility and adaptability
to develop a growth mindset in that it encourages continuous learning and resilience.
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Transformational leaders assist employees in accepting dynamic work environments, improving
problem-solving skills, and maintaining a sense of motivation. In comparison, a transactional
leader has a hard time flexing adaptability to its limit as he concentrates his energy on keeping
stability and enforcement of order in place rather than moving ahead with innovation and
flexibility. Overall, based on all these principles of Transformational Leadership Theory, it
therefore appears that transformational leadership positively contributes to the superior employee
outcomes in terms of work quality, job satisfaction, and adaptability, as opposed to transactional
leadership.
Theoretical Model
A conceptual model visually represents the relationships among the independent,
dependent, and control variables in this study. The diagram below (to be inserted) illustrates
these relationships.
Explanation of the Model
1. Independent Variable: Leadership Style (Transformational vs. Transactional)
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2. Dependent Variables: Employee Job Satisfaction, Work Quality, Adaptability
3. Control Variables: Organizational Culture, Industry Type, Employee Tenure
According to Northouse (2019), transformational leadership is anticipated to attend a positive
impact on job satisfaction, work quality and adaptability as inspirational motivation, intellectual
stimulation and individualized consideration are supposed to be fostered. Under transformational
leadership we encourage the employees to think intelligently, to utilise his initiative, to be a
professional, and the result is higher engagement, engagement, motivation. Thus, it increases the
job satisfaction as well as helps to keep employees working at high quality work standards. In
addition, transformational leadership promotes the culture of flexibility and flexibility, making
the employees more receptive to change and innovation.
However, Transactional Leadership is concerned with structured processes, clear
performance expectations and contingent rewards. This, however, is a good approach to
guarantee consistency and compliance, but this approach is not going to have much impact on
intrinsic motivation, creativity, or long term job satisfaction. Employees may align with
expectations but fall short of meeting or exceeding them and developing innovative delivery
methods.
Ones that account for external factors may include Organizational culture, Industry type
and Employee tenure as Control variables of the employee outcomes. Organizational culture
affects leadership effectiveness, type of industry affects job demands, and tenure indicates
employees’ acceptance of leadership styles as time passes.
Conclusion
This chapter sets out the theoretical bases of the hypotheses of his study. According to
Transformational Leadership Theory by transformational leadership, transformational leadership
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gets well defined framework that can explain how the transformational leadership has positive
impact on an employee job satisfaction, productivity and adaptability. In theory, the relationships
between leadership styles and employee outcomes are within the intrinsic and extrinsic
motivation principles of the theory. Further empirical analysis is developed from the portrayal of
these relationships, and the theoretical model presented reinforces these relationships.
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