Organizational Behavior

University of The People

Written Assignment Unit 7

08/02/2022
 Advantages and Disadvantages of Transformational Leadership

Inspired employees are most likely to continue with a company for an extended time period. This

decreases days off and work-related stress, as well as keeping the company and its employees

happy and gratified. This kind of leadership is popular and sought after, which results in

employing great people. Although, some disadvantages include negative interpretation and

tension because some individuals are scared of change. Feeling as though they have increased

stress to endure their jobs, the unfortunate truth is no matter how hard you try to understand the

problems, some staff members will have no investment in the goals and will be more worried

about continuing to their schedules. This can lead to an over reliance on a few non-interested

staff members.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Situational Leadership

Because situations that change, situational leadership recognizes a need of position flexibility. As

an outcome, problems are addressed in a more effective and customized way. As skilled

employees handle many issues, their team feels secure in their setting. It can also function as an

initial training exercise for continuous analysis by delegating a small subset of responsibilities so

that employees may help others. Then progressively increasing their responsibilities as they

become fully trained and attain success. But, there are some disadvantages to situational

leadership, such as the fact that assigning the job could lead to a wrong choice of leadership and

the responsibilities are separated into numerous small jobs. The company might lose sight of the

bigger picture that they need to focus on. It might be a challenge to create and integrate the

smaller jobs and those outcomes into the overall goals as the bigger plan or mission progresses.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Participate Leadership

Advantages of participative leadership is that staff members views are wanted and they will be in

a unique position to support in decision execution even though the leadership is not there. The

team can feel like they are appreciated and acknowledged. Team members in the group would be

more loyal to achieving their personal ideas. However, disagreeing team members viewpoints

can lead to discord or distructive competition among team members. Decision-making can take

longer due to disputes. Also the leadership may be prejudiced against implementing a decision if

they think it’s not a valid decision if the team members disagree.

In conclusion, as a business manager I can observe my strengths and weaknesses and then

analyze the situation to select which strategy or leadership styles will allow me to function

efficiently and attain the best results. To encourage other people to do their best, I must

emphasize encouraging my subordinates by using these concepts while keeping an eye out for

the undesirable impacts that can occur.

“Specifically, researchers started following a contingency approach to leadership - rather than

trying to identify traits or behaviors that would be effective under all conditions, the attention

moved toward specifying the situations under which different styles would be effective.”

(Bauer & Erdogan, 2009).

 Reference

Bauer, T., & Erdogan, B. (2009). Organizational Behavior. Flatworld Knowledge.