Transforming nursing: A series on nursing leadership – Transactional leadership
Introduction
The final article of the series ‘Transforming Nursing: A Series on Nursing Leadership’ explores transactional leadership. This leadership style relies on transactions between leaders and followers, either positive or negative, depending on the outcome of tasks delivered. These leaders reward their followers for task achievement and punish them for failure to meet demands or complete tasks allocated, hence the name, transactional leadership. Because of this, the style can also be cited as managerial leadership, focusing on orders and structures, which can either lead to positive or negative outcomes.
The leadership styles this series explore are:
- Authentic leadership
- Authoritarian (autocratic) leadership
- Compassionate leadership
- Collective leadership
- Transformational leadership
- Transactional leadership.
What is transactional leadership?
Sometimes referred to as managerial leadership (Advent Health University, 2020), transactional leadership is based on transactions between leader and follower, which can either have a positive reward or negative sanction depending on
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