As we said before and can see on the following table,
a transactional leader works with a system of punishment and rewards.
She or he has the power to correct the deviations by imposing the will.
It's easy to say that the main motivation
for a transactional worker, sorry,
to do her or his job is to achieve the rewards
that could be economical or a new position or whatever,
but it's an external reward.
Team mates under this kind of leadership tend to be poorly attached
to the goals of the group.
And they will obey all the rules and regulations, but won't improve them.
And as I have just said,
the commitment to the goals of the organization is low, really low,
but also to the leader.
In general, the leader tactics regarding manager are few,
avoiding conflicts and challenges,
because he or she doesn't need to face them.
Transactional leadership is a very straight forward way
of dealing with teams and their team members.
And it doesn't require a lot of humanistic leadership skills.
On the other hand, as we have already seen,
transformational leadership is completely the opposite.
It always focuses on people to make them feel as key players
in order to achieve the goals of the teams and the organization.
This kind of leadership fits much better in places
where employees need to be innovative and creative
and they look for a referent in their leader,
someone who inspires them to engage in the problems and to create,
to get new solutions.
Transformational leaders make the goals permeate the organization
and try to make the employees have a really high emotional attachment
to the organization goals and visions.
You can see that we have started talking about feelings and emotions.
In this kind of environment, the followers will not obey
the rules and regulations. Their behaviors will be dictated
by the group self-development of norms
and the group pressures on those "personal" rules.
It is easy to see that a transformational leader
will get a huge commitment to the goals and to him or herself by the teammates.
But in real life, nothing is free.
A transformational leader has to work really a lot
in his or her management tactics. It's not easy.
And specially, he or she has to be accessible to everybody,
making the group and each individual feel an important part of the group.
As I told you, this is not easy, at all.
And that requires a lot of work and efforts,
but the rewards for the general environment of the team
will be worth the price because as you know,
how we feel is normally the key aspect in our performance.