Transformational leaders also build a commitment to and respect for values that provide agreement on how to deal with ethical issues. Leadership approaches: Transactional Leadership Transformational Leadership Relations to others Independent Interdependent Rights and obligations Actions to protect individual Actions that meet social rights are valued obligation are valued Nature of goals Pragmatic goals Idealistic goals Evaluation of means and ends Ends justify means Means justify ends Behavioral strategy to Social contract and Cultivating personal virtues influence others exchange of resources and empowerment of other are basis for influence as basis of influence Nature of ethics Emphasis on purpose Emphasis on duty and on particulars and on universals

If his followers were loyal to him, he rewarded them by giving them a higher authority or helping them with some other request. In the same way, if one of his followers would happen to go against him, he would punish them by death...

In fact a defining characteristic of transformational leadership is the enormous personal impact it has on followers’ values, aspirations, ways of thinking about work and interpreting events...

In a real world, and as a leader, there is a strong need to be a knowledge-based environment for our clients or students. Such an environment requires our school to be a true learning organization where students are engaged in challenging and interesting academic work and where teachers and the administrative staff are collaboratively involved in learning about the most effective instructional strategies and technologies...