Question

Key Behaviors of Transformational Leaders Transformational leaders are inspiring. They empower and ignite passion in their followers. This activity is important because transformational leadership can motivate employees to transcend their own immediate needs and focus instead on the organization's objectives The goal of this exercise is to challenge your knowledge of the four key kinds of behaviors that transformational leaders exhibit.
Select the key behavior of transformational leaders that each example best represents
1. Zahid is good at empowering his employees by giving them a lot of responsibility for their work and increasingly challenging .
2. Cai is willing to go the extra mile for the good of her division-even if it means making personal sacrifices.
3. Jaden's employees are drawn to him--they tend to feel excited about and supportive of the ideas he presents.
4. Liam is known among his workers for his integrity-he is an honest, fair, and ethical person, even when he thinks no one is looking

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Zahid ⇒ Individualized consideration

Zahid shows that he cares for the progress of his employees because he wants to empower them. This shows that he considers the good of individuals working for him with a view to make them better and in so doing make the company better as well.

2. Cai ⇒ Idealized influence

Cai is willing to do as much as she can and even more to push the company forward. Employees seeing this will want to be like her because they will idealize her. She is leading by example and it will influence her subordinates.

3. Jaden ⇒ Inspirational motivation

Leaders with inspiration motivation are able to inspire people with their ideas such that people are excited by those ideas and are drawn to the leaders much like Jaden.

4. Liam ⇒ Idealized influence

Liam like Cai, is engaging in behavior that is ideal for a company and will lead to employees being better should they follow his examples. He has the ideal type of influence on his colleagues and employees.