Inspirational motivation is the ability to inspire and motivate followers to demonstrate
appropriate behavior. Such behavior includes implicitly showing enthusiasm and optimism,
stimulating teamwork, focusing on positive results, and emphasizing aims to stimulating
followers. It is that component of leadership that arouses followers’ enthusiasm and sense of
team spirit and appeals to often untapped human needs, values, and emotions (Kotter, 2001). By
giving attention to their need system, they touch the collective imagination of the people and
help their employees make that extraordinary effort (Kets de Vries & Florent-Treacy, 2002).
They move those who could not perform up to standard to positions where they could