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MGT Leadership Script

The document discusses transformational leadership and how Tony Fernandes demonstrated transformational leadership as CEO of Air Asia. Transformational leadership involves idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individual consideration. It can be applied individually or in groups to enhance performance and make organizations more productive.

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Tony Fernandes is seen to be a dynamic leader with

many aspects from most of the various leadership

styles. He however emerges strongly as a
transformational business leader. His transformational
leadership qualities are best exemplified during his
transformation of the airline as the CEO of Air Asia
Berhad. He was able to transform his workforce and his
business towards great success and business heights to
emerge as the leading budget airline in Asia. He was
able to do so by maintaining focus on his workforce,
tightening the relationship between himself and his
employees with a close supervisory relationship. He was
able to not only to create the vision for his followers but
also share it with them, making it their vision as well,
thus motivating them to become self-motivated. Like a
truly transformational leader, he set their targets and
pushed his team to high performance while allowing for
professional and personal improvement for the
members. He convinced his employees to unite in his
project and considers them as the main component of
the company. He has been quoted stating that in his
firm the employees come 1st and then clients 2nd as
when the employees are well taken care of , they will
take care of the customers.

Nowadays, organizations need to increase their

knowledge and awareness about the environment
and to create wide organizational changes for survival
and development. In this context, the role of leaders
who move the organization toward the future,
recognize the environmental need and facilitate
appropriate changes, becomes more evident. Such
leaders are called transformational leaders. These
leaders can strengthen the staff understanding and
justice and improve the quality of work life in the
organization. Quality of work life includes any
improvement in organizational culture which
improves employees’ satisfaction and human dignity
and causes their development and growth in the
organization. There are four factors to
transformational leadership which are idealized
influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual
stimulation, and individual consideration.

 Idealized influence describes managers who are exemplary role models for

associates. Managers with idealized influence can be trusted and respected
by associates to make good decisions for the organization.
 Inspirational motivation describes managers who motivate associates to
commit to the vision of the organization. Managers with inspirational
motivation encourage team spirit to reach goals of increased revenue and
market growth for the organization.
 Intellectual stimulation describes managers who encourage innovation and
creativity through challenging the normal beliefs or views of a group.
Managers with intellectual stimulation promote critical thinking and problem
solving in an effort to make the organization better.
 Individual consideration describes managers who act as coaches and
advisors to the associates. Managers with individual consideration encourage
associates to reach goals that help both the associates and the organization.
Transformational leadership is a vital role for effective
managers because leader effectiveness determines the
ultimate success of the organization. Organizations that
take the time to teach leadership are far ahead of the
competition. By becoming familiar with the
transformational leadership approach and combining the
four factors of transformational leadership, managers can
engage as effective leaders in the business world.

Transformational leadership can be applied in one-on-one

or group situations. Using this approach, the manager and
the associates are "transformed" to enhance individual job
performance and, as a group, help the organization be more
productive and successful.