At the time of writing, the author was a modern matron in a surgical division of an NHS teaching hospital in London. This article considers the differences between leadership and management, and discusses the skills required by modern matrons to lead safe and successful clinical services. It also examines three leadership styles – transactional, transformational and situational – and their rele...

This article reviews the mainstream leadership literature and its perennial debates and compares it to the public-sector (administrative) leadership literature. The mainstream leadership literature fully articulated the transformational models in the 1980s and began the serious work of integrating transactional and transformational types of leadership into comprehensive models in the 1990s. Man...

P N Rastogi is Professor of Sociology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. The success of any organization depends on its leadership. Although a good deal of research has been done on leadership, it is difficult to say what it is. Recent research classifies leaders broadly into two types: transactional and transforming (Burns, 1978). In t...

Research on leadership in economics has developed in parallel to the literature in management and psychology and links between the fields have been sparse. Whereas modern leadership scholars mostly focus on transformational and related leadership styles, economists have mainly emphasized the role of contracts, control rights, and incentives. We argue that both fields could profit from enriching...

By William Seidman and Michael McCauley They are highly successful managers of a business operations group that is responsible for collaborating with customers to manage the supply chain. They really know how to run business operations. However, when asked to think about re-designing their organization to handle five times the volume, these otherwise effective managers were stumped. They are hi...

A leader is an absolute person, always and must exist in organization or institution. In his leadership, a certainly has its own character to move personnel members. To realize proper quality organizational performance, it necessary have adequate leadership. The leadership be able motivate encourage staff by inspiring their creativity work. One of the types transactional will achieve goals if t...