Influence of Transformational Leadership Styles on Performance. A Critical Literature Review

Abstract

Purpose: Transformational leadership is a theory of leadership where a leader works with teams to identify needed change, creating a vision to guide the change through inspiration, and executing the change in tandem with committed members of a group; it is an integral part of the full range leadership model. Transformational leaders likely foster competence need satisfaction by providing challenges while also showing confidence in and enhancing followers abilities through coaching and role modelling.The general objective of the study was to establish the influence of transformational leadership styles on performance Methodology: The paper used a desk study review methodology where relevant empirical literature was reviewed to identify main themes and to extract knowledge gaps. Findings: The study found out that transformational leadership encourages loyal followers who give results. Leaders must be encouraged to use this management style. The findings denotes a positive relationship between performance and transformational leadership style. Moreover responsive and supportive transformational leadership behavior have a positive impact on organizational growth. Recommendations: The study recommends that leaders need to adopt transformative leadership to achieve organizational performance. Organization should embrace transformational leadership and sound policies that will strengthen their position as a fundamental sector in generating human capital for the country's developmental and economic needs as well as the development of training programs in leadership skills and competences in transformational leadership for the leaders of enterprises