{"id":1112,"date":"2019-10-08T23:32:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T03:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2019-10-08T23:32:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T03:32:01","slug":"transforming-and-transformational-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/08\/transforming-and-transformational-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Transforming and Transformational Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My main takeaway from Cauto\u2019s article is that somewhere within the duration of the existence of the term <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">transforming leadership <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">there has been the formulation of an alternative meaning different from its original meaning. Cauto credits the creation of the first alternative meaning to Bass. The article argues that the main difference between the original <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">transforming leadership <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and the more prominent and modern <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">transformational leadership <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is the context of each definition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bass\u2019s definition describes a relationship between leader and follower in which the direction of influence flows one-way&#8211;from the leader to the follower. The context of Bass\u2019s claim is within the scope of formal organization that is constituted by hegemonic behavior. In this relationship the leadership is influenced by the causal factors controlled by the leaders in which the followers are subordinates. This lack of cycling influence hinders\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Burns\u2019s definition differs in that the direction of influence is transferred throughout both parties of the relationship: leader and follower. Burns\u2019s definition is created in the context of social movements that lack formal organization and are influenced by conditions the leader can not control.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I believe that Bass\u2019s definition constricts the radical nature of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">transforming leadership <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by way of \u201c&#8230;chang[ing] the test of the radical transformation from social change to the achievement of institutional goals\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My main takeaway from Cauto\u2019s article is that somewhere within the duration of the existence of the term transforming leadership there has been the formulation&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/08\/transforming-and-transformational-leadership\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transforming and Transformational Leadership<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}