{"id":4315,"date":"2020-07-27T04:49:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T08:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/?p=4315"},"modified":"2020-07-27T04:49:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T08:49:30","slug":"transformational-and-transactional-leadership-identified-in-a-one-to-one-leader-follower-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/2020\/07\/27\/transformational-and-transactional-leadership-identified-in-a-one-to-one-leader-follower-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformational and Transactional Leadership identified in a one-to-one leader-follower relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the past several weeks, I have been assisting my supervisor in organizing online webinar series that takes place every week. In this post, I will be using the theory of Transformational and Transactional Leadership<\/em> to analyze my supervisor’s leadership role and her direct impact on me as a follower.<\/p>\n

According to Judge and Piccolo (2004), Transformational leaders<\/em> “offer a purpose that transcends short-term goals and focuses on higher order intrinsic needs” through one or more of the four dimensions: their charisma; inspirational motivations, intellectual stimulations, and individualized considerations imposed on their followers. Charisma<\/em> was hard for me to identify because I was working remotely; besides, my supervisor and I worked on a one-to-one basis: all departments of the organization have at least one representative to form a group that specifically organizes the webinars; my supervisor is the only person in her department. Therefore, my role serves more as an assistant to her rather than a member of the group. In other words, she is my one and only leader, while I’m her one and only follower. Hence, I automatically identify her as my leader.<\/p>\n

The online webinar series contains seven themes, ranging from environmental management to social welfare of the bamboo and rattan resources; while under each theme, there are five sessions. Webinars bring together scientists, experts, and professionals together for knowledge sharing and are held weekly since mid-June. Therefore, my supervisor is inspired to create a database that records the webinars’ useful information, including knowledge from the presentations and Q&A sessions, as well as feedback from the audience. She performed inspirational motivation<\/em>\u00a0by articulating the visions and purposes of creating such a database and the underlying meanings, which inspired me to carry out this task. She also practiced intellectual stimulation<\/em>\u00a0because instead of giving me a solid and specific structure of the database she designed, she delivered a big picture and let me devise how the framework looked. In this case, she offered flexibility and left me with much space to explore on my own. Therefore, I was motivated to go over each session of the webinars, transcribe the Q&A sessions, and identify the key information that would help construct a proper framework of the database for future reference. Finally, she showed individualized consideration<\/em> to me after knowing that I was dealing with other personal issues simultaneously. She expressed concerns and often offered to spare some of my works that made me feel more comfortable and less stressed.<\/p>\n

In terms of Transactional Leadership<\/em>, which focuses on the “proper exchange of resources” (Judge and Piccolo, 2004), I identified it in a slightly different perspective from the relationship between my supervisor and I. Instead of the material rewards I get from my work – the stipends – my work performance is more related to the “soft rewards” I may get from her – recognition and a good reputation. After all, the stipends are fixed no matter how good or bad I behave on my work, but if I practice good working ethics and complete my tasks well and timely, I will be recognized by my leader, which is another form of reward. Therefore, even if the study shows a less direct correlation between Transactional Leadership<\/em> than Transformational Leadership<\/em> to leadership criteria (Judge and Piccolo, 2004), the contingent reward<\/em> still plays an important role in my work and the relationship with my supervisor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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