ACCORDING to a foremost leadership scholar, Burns in his book titled, Leadership, published by Harper & Row, Transformational Leadership is the engagement of leaders and followers in a mutual process of raising one another to higher levels of morality and motivation.
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The transformational leader appeals to the higher ideals and values of the followers in an unselfish manner to achieve collaboration and collective success.
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In this engagement, the leader affects followers and transforms them in three ways, thus: increasing their awareness of task importance and value, getting them to focus first on team or organizational goals, rather than their own interests and activating their higher order needs.
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It can be inferred, therefore, that transformational leaders are charismatic, inspirational and. transform their followers to higher levels of performance and other positive work-related outcomes through four dimensions.