Burns (1978) is credited with first distinguishing between transactional and transformational leadership.
Transactional leadership is characterised by setting task goals, providing resources necessary to achieve goals and rewarding performance. It is the traditional leadership concern for people and for task.
Transformational leadership involves an emphasis on the leader activity intervening in the status quo, challenging current assumptions and understanding and encouraging others to do so as well.
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