One of the adverse effects of stress on "charismatic", "transformation" and "visionary" leader behavior over the last few decades has been a tendency to diminish the importance that the transactional behavior of the management is to leadership effectiveness. We say that it is bad, because recent studies have shown that transactional leadership, in the form of a contingent consideration and punishment behavior can have a significant impact on a number of important employee attitudes, perceptions, and productivity measures. Thus, in this article we will discuss some possible reasons why the transaction management has been relegated to a lesser role than transformational leadership, the results of research that indicates the importance of the leader of the contingent reward and punishment behavior of the management effectiveness, and to identify some of the mechanisms that these forms of leadership behavior to work through the impact on employee attitudes and behavior. After that, we address ten misconceptions managers often regarding the administration of rewards and punishments, and to provide some guidelines on how leaders can improve their performance in the recognition and management of discipline in organizational settings. "Hide
by Nathan P. Podsakoff, Philip M. Podsakoff, Valentine Kuskova Source: Business Horizons 13 pages. Publication Date: May 15, 2010. Prod. #: BH388-PDF-ENG
