Transformational Leadership: A Review on Contemporary Issues

Abstract

The primary objective of this review is to comprehensively delve into recent studies that are directly related to Transformational Leadership (TFL). Transformational theory explains and concentrates on a community-oriented follower-leader engagement as well as defining leadership as broader than event-oriented exchanges among leaders and followers. New concerns are recognized, new skills and capabilities are developed. However, there are limited studies that investigated the importance of how to improve TFL competences. Specific aspects of training and development of transformational leadership in a variety of contexts needs to be more clearly considered by future studies. The findings of this review clearly reveal that the basis of TFL dimensions is related to followers’ development. Furthermore, future studies should continue to examine the causative details surrounding TFL training and development to clarify such relationships that might be exposed. Managerial level training might prove to be both more effective to influence and inspire follower to ease change implementation and costeffectiveness. Corresponding, supports training in TFL will enhance performance. Therefore, performance suggests that leaders be trained such that they will appear more transformational in order to give useful and important returns on investment in term of follower development. This review revealed that various variables influenced by TFL are not just theoretically sound, but, indeed, empirically proven to be correct. This review has applicability to any aspiring leader, seeking to develop their capacities in an organizational setting.