Leading Change in Public Institutions: Transformational Leader

Nowadays, the need for change for the organizations to compete is increasing day after day. It is the role of transformational leaders to demonstrate the need for change within the organization, to assure the adaptation of employees to the change and to eliminate the resistance to the change, to motivate them, to create a vision by foreseeing the future opportunities, to prepare the organization and employees to the future conditions, to encourage the employees to produce new ideas. The need to adapt the private sector as well as the public sector to the change is an undeniable fact. Our main objective in this context is to examine the role of transformational leaders in the process of organizational change and to develop various research propositions, related to these roles. The academic studies on Transformational Leadership and Organizational Change taking part in Turkish and Foreign Literature have been scanned further to the research. The studies have been examined but it has been observed that the studies on leadership and change are limited. It was thought that this research will contribute even a little to the literature. With this study, proposals have been developed on the roles of transforming leaders within the process, through John. P Kotter’s article “The 8 Step Process for Leading Change”. The point highlighted is that the leadership characteristics of the managers working in public institutions are not enough for the change, that the transformational leadership characteristics can be gained, that the process can be achieved successfully with the participation of employees in the change and to take their point of view and to appreciate them. Institutionalization of the change is realized with the transformational leader’s success