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TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP Transforminto Super Leaders: TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP and See David M. Boje December 25, 2000INDEX TO THIS PAGE (Click and go): How Story was Stolenfrom Charismatic Leadership(1948)- Weber's Types and X/YDimensions of TraitsTransforming- Plotting Burn's Types on X, Y& Z Dimensions of TraitsTransformational1985TransformationalCulture ChangeAlso seeIntroduction: How Story was Stolen fromCharismatic LeadershipInthe beginning there was Max Weber's (1947) story of charismaticleaders, heroes that transformed and changed the world, until theywere ousted or succeeded by bureaucratic or traditionalauthority. Sir MacGregor Burns (1978) studied Weber andreasoned that transactional leaders were like the bureaucrats, andcharismatic heroic leaders were the transformation leaders.Burns set sail from the Isle of Behavior, already having sailed tothe Isle of Traits, and had heard of the Isle of Situation (butdid not go there). Burns came to settle on the Isle ofTransformational Leadership (there is an out island there calledCharisma).Like Weber, Burns reasoned that moral values were important toleadership.

For Burns, the transforming leaders focused on ends,while the transactional leaders negotiated and bargained over themeans. Burns studied the historical, social, economic, andpolitical context of the stories of great leaders to developsubcategories of bother transactional and transformational leaders(See Table Two). However, Burns dismissed Machiavelli andNietzsche's theories of power as being amoral.

Burns favored whathe considered moral leaders, those without WILL TO POWER. They allhad what he called ' t he Spur of Ambition.'

The Earl of Bass had also sailed from theIsle of Behavior and quickly decided that Burns' stories were toomessy, too hard to interpret, and instructed his magicians toconcoct technologies and instruments to convert story to factoranalytic survey questions. Bass accused Burns of threeatrocities: (1) Burns did not pay attention to the portfolio offollowers' needs and wants, (2) Burns restricted transformationalleadership to moral ends, and worst of all, (3) Burns set up asingle continuum running from transactional to transformationalleaderly types (Bass, 1985: 20-22). These are serious charges andmostly a wrong reading of Burns (1978) and Weber (1947).First, both Bass, and to a less extentBurns, neglected the transactional aspects of Weber. Second, whileBurns did take of moral leadership, his approach was to look atthe high and low morality of both transactional andtransformational leaders. Third, Bass' critiques Burns forsetting up a continuum from transactional to transformational, butends up doing the same thing. In addition Bass' theory becomes ofa dualistic hierarchy of transformation over transaction.These are some of the intrigues of the Isle of Transformation,currently the most popular island of all.Max Weber's (1947) Model of Transactionaland Transformational LeadersTable One: Max Weber's (1947) Model ofTransaction and Transformation Leadership Authority.

THREEFOR THE Capitalist Entrepreneur2. Bureaucratic (Transactional)Bureaucracy is 'the exercise of control onthe basis of knowledge: (p.

It is the stuffof rational legal hierarchical power, the.1. Charistmatic/ Hero (Transformer)An individual personality set apart formordinary people and endowed withsupernatural, superhaman powers, and heroic qualities. In short part Hero, andpart.3.

Traditional (Feudal/ Prince)Traditional is an arbitrary exercise of Sultanpower bound to loyalty, favoritism, and politics.It is stuff of.FigureOne:Introduction - Few, if any, leadershiptheorists have noted the transactional aspects of Weber's (1947)model of the three leaderly authorities. Yet, what Weber theorizedis quite consistent (though not identical) with the transactionaltheory of Burns (1978) and Bass (1985). Further, Burns, Bass, andthen House (1977) all but ignore the routinization of charismaaspects of Weber's theory, handing over a partial reading ofWeber. Most of all, what is missed about Weber by these andother leadership theorists, is the dynamic quality of the triadicWeberian model of leadership (See Table One). It is assumed thatthe Traditional authority can be ignored, as the bureaucratic getssubsumed under transactional, and the the charismatic, partiallyappropriated as transformational. For me, Weber'sTraditional form picks up many of the political aspects that Burnsdifferentiates into several subcategories of transactional leaders(i.e.

Opinion, legislative, and party leader). Finally, theleadership theorists prefer to ignore Machiavelli's Prince, wherethe Traditional form continues to play the politics of power inmodern organizations.About Weber - Max Weber was born 1864 and died1920. Weberasks how is it a leader can 'legitimately' give acommand and have actions carried out?

He answered the question byclassifying claims to the 'legitimacy' in the exerciseof authority. Except for slavery, people entered into one of threekinds of leader/follower relations (Weber, 1947: 328-349,summarized). This is an idela type model, where Weber lays outeach ideal type, but also shows how in his inductive observationslead him to believe that they occur in combination (such as amixture of charismatic and bureaucratic and traditional componentsof authority and leadership, see p. Only in the ideal worldis the bureaucracy 'free of the necessity of compromisebetween different opinions and also free of shiftingmajorities' (p. Weber also argues that 'there maybe gradual transitions between these types' of leadership andauthority systems (p. 336).Here are the ideal types:. Bureaucratic/ Rational Grounds - resting on a belief in the 'legality'of patterns of normative rules and the right of those elevated to authorityunder such rules to issue commands (legal authority).

The ideal (pure abstract)type of bureaucracy (p. 333-336) is free of transaction negotiation andbargaining for resources and power, but what Weber terms the 'monocratic'(p. 337-341) and 'modern' (capitalistic) types are much more transactional.The bureaucratic type of leadership operates in a transaction economy.The leader is subject to strict and systematicdiscipline and control in the conduct of theoffice.Claims to obedience based on rational values andrules and established by agreement (orimposition).

The office holder is restricted toimpersonal official obligations and commands.Consistent system of abstract rules to apply toparticular cases and governing the limits laiddown on the corporate group.There is a clearly defined hierarchy of offices.Persons exercise the authority of their office andare subject to an impersonal order; officials, notpersons exercise authority. They have thenecessary authority to carry out their specializedfunctions.Each office is defined sphere of competence and isfilled by a free contractual relationship (freeselection based on technical qualifications orexamination).

Each office is a career, a full timeoccupation.People are remunerated by fixed salaries, in moneyand in pensions. Salary scales are gradedaccording to rank in the hierarchy.There is a system of promotion based uponseniority or achievement (dependent on judgmentof superiors).Person who obeys authority does so in theircapacity as a member of the corporate group.Person does not owe obedience to the individual,but to the impersonal order.A specified sphere of competence involves a sphereof obligations to perform functions marked off inthe division of labor. Not every administrativeorgan is provided with compulsory powers.The means of compulsion are clearly defined andtheir use is subject to definite conditions.There are rules that regulate the conduct of anoffice (either technical rules or norms).Only people demonstrating adequate technicaltraining qualification can be selected to beadministrative staff or placed in officialpositions.There is a right to appeal and a right to stategrievances from the lower to the higher.Sometimes administrative heads are elected. But inthe pure form, the hierarchy is dominated by theprinciple of appointment.

Appointment byfree selection and and free contract is essentialto modern bureaucracy.Administrative staff should be completelyseparated from ownership of the means ofproduction or administration. Workers, staff, andadministrators do not own the means of production.There is a complete separation of propertybelonging to the personal and to the organization.The exception is the peasantry who still owns themeans of subsistence (p. 338).People do not own their positionsAdministrative acts, decisions, and rules areformulated and recorded in writing.At the op of the business corporation is aposition that is not purely bureaucratic. Itis more the position of a monarch (p.

3350.Capitalism fosters bureaucratic development,though bureaucracy arises in other settings (e.g.socialist). 'Capitalism is the mostrational economic basis for bureaucraticadministration and enables it to develop in themost rational form.' Weberforesaw that socialism would require a higherdegree of formal bureaucracy than capitalism (p.339).EXAMPLES: The Catholic Church, hospitals,religious orders, profit-making business,large-scale capitalistic enterprise, modern army,the modern state, trade union, and charitableorganizations (p. 334-335).ADVANTAGES - capable of attaining the highestdegree of efficiency. Technical efficiency. Thecorporate control over coercive leaders.

Favorsthe leveling of social classes.DISADVANTAGES - powerful interests co-opt theoffices and turn them into feudal kingdoms. Leveling in the interest of broadestpossible basis of recruitment in terms oftechnical competence. Tendency to plutocracy growing out ofinterest in greater length of technicaltraining. Formalistic spirit of impersonality thatstunts enthusiasm and passion; Duty overpersonal considerations.

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Traditional Grounds (e.g. The Prince)- resting on an establishedbelief in the sanctity of immemorial traditions and the legitimacy of thestatus of those exercising authority under them (traditional authority).Legitimacy and power to control is handed downfrom the past.

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This power can be exercised inquite arbitrary ways (Chief can declare himselfabove the jurisdiction of the court).Office held by virtue of traditional status and berecruiting favorites or by patrimony.Obligations are not by office but personal loyaltyto the chief. Contracts of fealty.Promotion is by the arbitrary grace of the chief(no technical training of skill required).Commands are legitimized by traditionsObligations of obedience on the basis of personalloyalty (kinship, slaves, or dependents).Chief if free to confer or withhold his personalpleasure or displeasure according to personallikes and dislikes that can bearbitrary.The traditional exercise of authority is onlylimited by resistance aroused in the subjects. Or,but pointing to a failure to act according to thetraditions.Vassals are sorts of favorite people of the chief.This is termed Sultanism (the organizationresponds to arbitrariness and irrationality,rather than to the rationality of economicactivity, p.

355).Functions are defined in terms of competitionamong the interest of those seeking favors,income, and other advantage. Fees can be paid tothe Royal courts to purchase functions, such asshipping or taxation. This allows some mobilityamong the classes.

It also results in bribery andcorruption as well as disorganization.There is an irrational division of officialfunctions (established by rights or fees, asdescribed above).EXAMPLES - ruling families, feudal kingdoms inChina Egypt and Africa, family business, Roman andother nobilities, clans and armies of thecoloni.DISADVANTAGES: The development of capitalismis obstructed (p. In Traditional authority,the following Bureaucratic facets are ABSENT thatfacilitate capitalism (p. 343):. Clearly defined sphere ofcompetence subject to impersonalrules. Rational ordering of relations ofsuperiority and inferiority. A regular system of appointmentand promotion on the basis of freecontract. Technical training as a regularrequirement.

Fixed salaries. Charismatic Grounds (e.g. MORAL VALUE LEADER - emergesfrom, and always returns to, the fundamental wantsand needs, aspirations, and values of thefollowers (p. 4). For Burns his project is to'deal with leadership as distinct from merepower-holding and as the opposite of brutepower' (p.

4).is lead to have arelationship not only of power but ofmutual needs, aspirations, and highervalues.in responding to leaders,followers have adequate knowledge ofalternative leaders and programs and thecapacity to choose among thosealternatives.leaders takeresponsibility for their commitments - ifthey promise certain kinds of economic,social, and political change, they assumeleadership in the bringing about of thatchange.Burns sets up a duality betweenamoral and moral leaders, and only the moralleaders with higher purpose can be transactionalor transformational leader. Thus Burns'theory of morality drives the duality. Thehierarchy is as follows: amoral leaders arecoercive with a strong will to power,transactional leaders have the moral means tolead, and transformational leaders add totransaction what is lacking, the moral ends ofleadership.THE AMORAL LEADER is forBurns neither transactional or transformational.Amoral leader is for Burns and oxymoron.

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First, herejects the 'naked power wieldingcoercive' dictators and fascists are rejectedas being 'true' leaders (1978: 20).' For Burns (1978: 20, italics mine) ' nakedpower-wielding can be neither transformational nortransactional; only leadership can be.' Second, to be a moral leader, for Burns is to besensitive to the needs and motives of potentialfollowers. Third, the 'crucial variable'for Burns is the 'purpose' (p. 19) ofthe leader. Fourth, Burns rejects the 'geewhiz' personality cult of celebrities as anelitist theory of power (p.

Finally,Burns rejects the kinds of TraditionalLegitimating rulers (or Sultans) that Weber (1947)writes about.

A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian examines transformational leaders from Moses to Machiavelli to Martin Luther King Jr. In this “impressive book” ( The Washington Post). Historian and political scientist James MacGregor Burns has spent much of his career documenting the use and misuse of power by leaders throughout history. Construction contracts hinze pdf to excel file. In this groundbreaking study, Burns examines the qualities that make certain leaders—in America and elsewhere—succeed as transformative figures. Through insightful anecdotes and historical analysis, Burns scrutinizes the charisma, vision, and persuasive power of individuals able to imbue followers with a common sense of purpose, from the founding fathers to FDR, Gandhi to Napoleon.

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