Author(s): Ahmad Zayed T Bataineh
The foremost intention of this case study is to provide an educational material to instructors and students in regard a specific leadership style, transformational leadership. This case study provides a real workplace demonstration of how transformational styles constructs can be employed. The difficulty level of this case study is appropriate for a first year graduate level. The case requires four hours of outside preparation by students and two hours of a virtual or an on-site class. Transformational leadership is a key tenet of modern business leadership, but many leaders still struggle to employ it. To better understand how transformational leadership is used in practice, a single case study was carried out to investigate the transformational leadership strategies used by a business leader with extensive experience successfully implementing transformational leadership. A single, semi-structured interview was conducted with this leader. Coding and thematic analysis yielded eight key themes: (a) Training, (b) decision involvement, (c) verbal motivation, (d) team empowerment, (e) facing difficulties, (f) diligence, (g) frequent meetings, and (h) written appreciation. These eight themes broadly align with the literature and transformational leadership theory, but also offer some new insights.