For this assignment, you will reflect on the importance of using the appropriate leadership style to influence employee engagement and performance. You will analyze three leadership approaches—transformational, transactional, and servant leadership—to discuss their relative advantages, disadvantages, or appropriate use.
Prior to beginning work on this assignment,
Read the assigned sections (pp. 253 to 270) of Chapter 10 in Leadership: Theory and Practice.
Read Chapter 5 of An Introduction to Leadership.
Read 10 Compelling Reasons Servant Leadership May Be the Best, Says Science (Links to an external site.).
Find two scholarly, peer-reviewed, or credible sources to help define or explain transformational, transactional, and servant leadership.
In your paper,
Discuss the importance of using the appropriate leadership style to influence employee engagement and performance.
Define transformational, transactional, and servant leadership.
Explain the main differences between transformational, transactional, and servant leadership.
Discuss one advantage and one disadvantage of each leadership approach: transformational, transactional, and servant leadership.
Discuss situations in which each leadership style would work well and situations in which each style would not be as effective.
