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This 3 page paper considers of the use of a transformational leadership approach is suitable for the fictitious case of Gene One, an organization that has a number of different goals to achieve in order to ready for an IPO in three years. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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the need to motivate staff and facilitate innovation, to renew the firm image, to launch new products, as well as develop a new business model and a strategy to increase
the customer base and the profit, as well as the need to raise capital. The sheer scope and scale of the tasks ahead require a wide range of skills and
the leader will need to have both vision and charisma in order to gain their support of the employees and their positive input into the process. There are many different
approaches to leadership, where the leader needs to motivate others, will have to gain their support and needs to persuade them that the changes are needed that the use of
a transformational style would be suitable. Transformational leadership, which is also referred to as relationship leading, is a concept developed by James
MacGregor Burns who defined the term and based his work on the observation of many leaders such as political and military leaders. Burns (1978) argued that the transformational leader may
be seen as an extension of the charismatic leader and would focus on the end goal whereas the alternative model, of transactional models would look at negotiations and bargaining to
get to an end. In research undertaken looking at the way that characteristics and behaviors of leaders could be effective on individuals, it
was found that there was more than simply a matter of reward for effort exchange taking place, which is typified by the transactional leadership approach. Instead, respondents within the research
cited instances of inspiration, stimulation, and a range of other approaches which were adopted which focused on individuals and soft elements of the organization, many people, in order to undertake
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