COMPARE AND CONTRAST FOUR LEADERSHIP MODELS
UNIVERISTY OF PHOENIX

There are four leadership models that I will talk about. These leadership models are Charismatic, Transformational, Servant, and Transactional. These styles of leadership hold significant differences. However,
The Charismatic Leadership style refers to a special quality that enables the leader to mobilize and sustain activity within an organization through specific personal actions combined with perceived personal characteristics (Wren, 1995, p. 108). The charismatic leader has three components which include envisioning, energizing, and enabling. Charismatic leaders display behaviors that will inspire others. And their ethical values are very high. It seems likely that under normal ethical charismatic circumstances, a leader’s mirror-needs play a central role in his or her desire to become the focus of social attention (Avolio & Yammarino, 2002, p. 248).
The Transformational Leadership style is quite rewarding. The transforming leader shapes, alters, and elevates the motives and values and goals of followers (Wren, 1995, p. 103). Transformational leadership focuses on culture and learning experiences in the workplace. Although not the most agreeable man in history, Adolf Hitler has inherently follows the charismatic leadership model. He had many followers that followed his leadership as a dictator, and he took advantage of his “followers independent of their inherent intentions, thereby opening the door to the realm of bad intentions that beg consideration when discussing charisma” (Sandberg & Moreman, 2011, p. 237). However, not all leaders are malevolent dictators determine to attempt world domination. Take Steve Jobs, for example; where the influences over his followers with Apple’s products demonstrate a very “appealing vision” (Robbins & Judge, 2009, p. 415) with the iPod’s