The article that focuses on transactional leadership says “Transactional Leadership focuses on results, conforms to the existing structure of an organization and measures success according to that organization\u2019s system of rewards and penalties”. I decided to respond to this article because honestly transformational leadership still kind of confuses me. Transactional leadership is a lot more straightforward in my opinion, though it does still have its nuances. Transactional is basically exactly how it sounds, it is a transaction; I give you X so you give me Y. The article used Bill Gates as an example. Apparently, he was a bit of a jerk but his way of managing got results. He did not stand for dumb answers or ideas and focused on getting results and that is how he built Microsoft.<\/p>\n
You can also look at people in the office to see a real-life example of transactional leadership. Today in class we talked about how people that we elect to power are transactional leaders. We give them money and our votes for them to fight for what we want. This is not always a good thing. One of my biggest complaints about congress is that large donors have too much power, the NRA for example. They give candidates lots of money in return for that candidate to fight for more lenient gun laws. Instead of fighting for what the people want, which is stricter gun laws and more background checks, congresswomen and men are choosing to support the current system because they get a lot of money from the NRA. This is a more negative form of transactional leadership just to demonstrate that there is no form of leadership that is perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The article that focuses on transactional leadership says “Transactional Leadership focuses on results, conforms to the existing structure of an organization and measures success according…<\/p>\n