CMA Foundation · Fundamentals of Business Economics and Management · Leadership and Motivation - Concepts and Theories
Which leadership style is best characterised by the leader inspiring followers with a vision, encouraging innovation and raising their motivation beyond routine self-interest?
Transformational leadership fits this description. The leader inspires followers with a vision, encourages innovation and lifts motivation beyond routine self-interest. Transactional leadership relies on exchanging rewards for performance, while autocratic and bureaucratic styles stress control, rules and procedures rather than inspiration.
- ATransformational leadershipCorrect
- BTransactional leadership
- CAutocratic leadership
- DBureaucratic leadership
Explanation
Transformational leaders inspire through vision, intellectual stimulation and individual attention, lifting followers beyond self-interest. Transactional leaders rely on exchange of rewards for performance and on rules. Autocratic and bureaucratic styles stress control and procedures rather than inspiration.
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