Abstract:
Administrators/faculty typically have little exposure to salient leadership literature, and college applications. A major example is transactional vs. transformational leadership, which has become increasingly important with deteriorating budgets. Transactional leadership emphasizes transactions/exchanges between leaders, colleagues, and followers, and uses contingent reward and management by exception in dealing with others. Transformational leadership emphasizes transformation/change in an organization through the use of empowerment, visioning, and ethics (end results).
College decision making typically requires different leadership forms. Transactional leadership is typically employed for hiring faculty, programmatic assignments, allocating resources, salary adjustments, promotions/tenure actions, counter offers, problem employee interventions, and academic governance. Transformational leadership is appropriate for strategic planning, cutback management, task forces for problem solving, leadership/professional development, requests for proposals, and grievance resolution.
A case study of utilizing transformational leadership for college academic programs at Florida is presented. Enrollment had declined, the state had reduced funding and indicated low enrollment majors dramatically increased, major curricular change occurred, and funding and faculty/staff were considerably expanded.
Keywords:
transformational leadership, transactional leadership
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