Transformational Managers and Leaders

Views of organization manager are changing largely because of current restructuring initiatives and the demands of the 90s. Advocates for organization reform also usually advocate altering power relationships. The problem, explain Douglas Mitchell and Sharon Tucker (2013), is that we have tended to think of manager as the capacity to take charge and get things done. This view keeps us from focusing on the importance of teamwork and comprehensive organization improvement. Perhaps it is time, they say, to stop thinking of manager as aggressive action and more as a way of thinking -- about ourselves, our jobs, and the nature of the educational process. Thus, "instructional manager" is "out" and "transformational manager" is "in."