How Transformational Leadership Influences the Knowledge-Sharing Process

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-71
Author(s):  
Ayesha Naeem ◽  
Rab Nawaz Lodhi ◽  
Aman Ullah
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Mediation Effects ◽  
Leaders And Followers ◽  
Transformational Leadership Style ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to investigate the mediating effects of both affect-based and cognition-based trust on the relationship between using a transformational leadership style and the effectiveness of followers' knowledge sharing processes (i.e., knowledge donating and knowledge collecting). Using data collected from 287 employees at 32 pharmaceutical companies in Pakistan, the structural equation modelling (SEM) technique was utilised to analyse the hypothesised relationships. The results showed that leaders with a transformational leadership style directly affect their followers' knowledge donating and knowledge collecting processes. In addition, affect-based trust was found to fully mediate the relationships between transformational leadership and followers' knowledge donating and knowledge collecting processes, while cognition-based trust produced insignificant mediation effects. From a social exchange perspective, these findings demonstrate the importance of focusing on building affect-based trust between leaders and followers in order to develop transformational leadership that could positively influence the knowledge sharing process.

scholarly journals Influence of Job Engagement on Transformational Leadership Style and Organizational Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
Dr. Khan Sarfaraz Ali ◽  
Mezbah Ul Islam ◽  
Tamanna Nowrin Azam ◽  
Wares Ul Matin
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Job Engagement ◽  
Mediation Effects ◽  
Transformational Leadership Style ◽  
The Relationship

In recent years, job engagement has received considerable attention among academic community and business professionals. Still such issue needs to be prioritized in the research especially as it is an essential antecedent of organizational performance. This study aims at examining the relationship between transformational leadership style and organizational performance and to explore whether job engagement can influence on this relationship. Study data were collected from the employees working in a mobile phone company in Bangladesh and collected data were analyzed using SPSS version 20. In order to test the study hypotheses Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was used. The result of measurement model indicates that the relationship between transformational leadership style and organizational performance is statistically significant. In terms of mediation effects, job engagement mediates the relationship between transformational leadership style and organizational performance.

scholarly journals Transformational Leadership, Task-Involving Climate, and Their Implications in Male Junior Soccer Players: A Multilevel Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (19) ◽  
pp. 3649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Octavio Álvarez ◽  
Isabel Castillo ◽  
Vladimir Molina-García ◽  
Inés Tomás
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Soccer Players ◽  
Mediation Effects ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Extra Effort ◽  
Transformational Leadership Style ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Outcome Criteria

Despite the well-known positive consequences of transformational coaches in sport, there is still little research exploring the mechanisms through which coaches’ transformational leadership exerts its impact on athletes. Multilevel SEM was used to examine the relationship between coaches’ transformational leadership style, a task-involving climate, and leadership effectiveness outcome criteria (i.e., players’ extra effort, coach effectiveness, and satisfaction with their coach), separately estimating between and within effects. A representative sample of 625 Spanish male soccer players ranging from 16 to 18 years old and nested in 50 teams completed a questionnaire package tapping the variables of interest. Results confirmed that at the team level, team perceptions of transformational leadership positively predicted teams’ perceptions of task climate, which in turn positively predicted the three outcome criteria. At the individual level, players’ perceptions of transformational leadership positively predicted teams’ perceptions of task climate, which in turn positively predicted teams’ extra effort and coach effectiveness. Mediation effects appeared at the team level for all the outcome criteria, and at the individual only for extra effort. Transformational leadership is recommended to enhance task climate, in order to increase players’ extra effort, their perceptions of the effectiveness of their coach, and their satisfaction with his/her leadership style.

scholarly journals Transformational Leadership Facilitates Innovation Capability: The Mediating Roles of Interpersonal Trust

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Hui ◽  
Sengphet Phouvong ◽  
Le Ba Phong
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Interpersonal Trust ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Innovation Capability ◽  
Employee Trust ◽  
Transformational Leadership Style ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

Innovation capability is widely accepted as an important means to attain sustain competitive advantage for firms before the rapidly changing of business environment and increasingly competitive pressure. The main goal of this study is to explore an effective way to successfully improving innovation capability for firms based on examining the relationship between transformational leadership style, interpersonal trust, and innovation capability of Vietnamese firms. The authors apply Structural Equations Modeling (SEM) to test the impacts of transformational leadership, interpersonal trust on innovation capability by using data collected from 195 participants in Vietnamese firms. The result revealed that transformational leadership and interpersonal trust significantly affect innovation capability. In addition, interpersonal trust mediates the relationship between transformational leadership and innovation capability. The findings highlights the need of practicing transformational leadership to foster employee trust and finally to enhance innovation capability for firms. The findings of this study contribute to filling the theoretical gaps which call for research on antecedent factors of innovation capability.

How does individuals’ exchange orientation moderate the relationship between transformational leadership and knowledge sharing?

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 1622-1639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuting Xiao ◽  
Xi Zhang ◽  
Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Task Performance ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Organizational Knowledge ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Exchange Ideology ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose This study aims to explore the complex relationship between leadership and organizational knowledge sharing by investigating the moderating role of exchange ideology on the relation between transformational leadership in attributed charisma and knowledge sharing and the influence of attributed charisma and knowledge sharing on task performance. The influence of leadership in organizational knowledge sharing process has been gradually highlighted. Design/methodology/approach Based on the review of relevant literature and survey, a structural equation model considering four factors in the model together is now constructed and provides four hypotheses which can be verified. Self-completed questionnaires were collected from 163 students in the context of a graduate class in China. Findings The findings illustrate the relationship between leadership theory and knowledge sharing from a perspective of social exchange theory. In particular, results show that both transformational leadership and knowledge sharing have positive impacts to task performance and for individuals with low exchange ideology the positive influence from attributed charisma to knowledge sharing is stronger. Originality/value This research introduces exchange ideology as a moderator and explains the complex relationship between transformational leadership and knowledge sharing with sufficient proof. Transformational leadership in attributed charisma is more effective to those individuals with low exchange ideology in facilitating their knowledge effort. This paper can be theoretically and practically helpful to researchers and enterprise leaders in organizational knowledge management.

The mediating role of trust in stimulating the relationship between transformational leadership and knowledge sharing processes

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phong Ba Le ◽  
Hui Lei
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Employee Trust ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the influence of transformational leadership (TL) and two aspects of trust (trust in a leader and trust among members, including two versions of each: “disclosure” and “reliance”) on knowledge collecting (KC) and knowledge donating (KD). Design/methodology/approach Structural equation modelling was used to test the effects of TL and aspects of trust on knowledge sharing (KS) processes using data collected from 336 participants at 35 large service firms. Findings The results showed that reliance-based trust in a leader (LR), disclosure-based trust in a leader (LD), reliance-based trust among members (MR) and disclosure-based trust among members (MD) act as mediators in the relationship between TL and KS processes. LR and MR have more significant effects on KD, whereas LD, MD and TL have more significant effects on KC. Research limitations/implications Future research could examine how personal characteristics (e.g. education level and working experiences) moderate the relationships between TL and KS processes. Practical implications From a practical perspective, the paper provides directors/managers an increased understanding of paths to success in KC and KD. Originality/value This paper provides theoretical initiatives on building employee trust and improving KS in the field of knowledge management. From a managerial perspective, this study identifies necessary factors for encouraging and promoting KS processes within an organization.

Transformational leadership and employee creativity

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 894-910 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swati Mittal ◽  
Rajib Lochan Dhar
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Employee Creativity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Transformational Leadership Style

Purpose – Among the different styles of leadership, transformational leadership has gained most attention from organisational researchers and academics. Although transformational leadership and its work-associated outcomes have been examined in previous literature, only a small number of studies highlighted the role of transformational leadership style in fostering employee creativity, mediated through their creative self-efficacy (CSE) in the context of Indian organisations. The purpose of this paper is to observe the effect of transformational leadership on employee creativity in small and medium sized IT companies, where CSE is proposed as a mediator and knowledge sharing as a moderator through which a transformational leader tends to influence the creativity of the employees. Design/methodology/approach – Data were gathered from 348 manager-employee dyads of small and medium size IT companies operating in India. They replied to questions about their leader’s transformational leadership style, employee CSE, knowledge sharing and creativity. Findings – Findings of the present study, derived from a hierarchical regression analysis, using the data of 348 manager-employee dyads from Indian IT SMEs professionals, revealed that CSE mediates the relation between transformational leadership and employee creativity. In addition, knowledge sharing acts as a moderator for CSE and employee creativity. Research limitations/implications – A sample size is one probable limitation of the study. Another limitation of the study is that factors used for the survey were self-reported by the respondents. Self-reporting may not always produce reliable and accurate response. Practical implications – Based on the results, this study presents strong theoretical and managerial implications that can be used by IT organisations to evaluate the consequence of transformational leadership on employee creativity. Through transformational leadership style, leader can develop CSE and employee creativity to do things in a better way and develop knowledge sharing in employees for high performance. Therefore, the IT industry need to understand that creativity is one of the approaches to attaining and sustaining competitive advantage. In addition, it is important for them to find out more about the relation between transformational leadership, CSE and employee creativity. Originality/value – The study adds to the existing literature by illuminating the process through which transformational leadership has a significant effect on fostering CSE and employee creativity.

Transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior: Mediating role of affective commitment

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye Hoon Lee ◽  
Boyun Woo ◽  
Yukyoum Kim
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Head Coaches ◽  
Citizenship Behaviors ◽  
Transformational Leadership Style ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between transformational leadership style, affective commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior in the athletic director–coach relationship. This study particularly focused on the mediating effect of affective commitment on the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior. Athletic head coaches in NCAA Division II programs ( N = 244) completed the questionnaires measuring perceptions of the transformational leadership style of their athletic directors, their affective commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior. The results revealed that perceived transformational leadership was positively associated with affective commitment, which, in turn, was positively associated with organizational citizenship behaviors. Further, the result of this study supported full mediation among the proposed variables in that affective commitment served as the underlying psychological mechanism in the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behaviors. Implications for athletic departments in fostering head coaches’ affective commitment and organizational citizenship behavior were discussed.

scholarly journals Transformational Leadership Style and Self-Efficacy among Teaching Professionals

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajnee Sharma ◽  
Dr. Shalini Singh
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Idealized Influence ◽  
Multifactor Leadership ◽  
Transformational Leadership Style ◽  
The Relationship

Our education system has been remoulding rapidly because of modernization. Transformational leadership style leads to favourable changes in those who follow. These leaders put in maximum efforts to increase the level of follower’s awareness for valued outcomes by expanding and elevating their needs and encouraging them to transcend their self-interests. Transformational leadership plays pivotal role in promoting and managing school development by influencing the self-efficacy of teachers. Self-efficacy is one of the four major components of positive psychological capital .School is the first and foremost important platform of education. The present paper makes an attempt to study the relationship between transformational leadership style of principal and self-efficacy of school teachers. For this, a total sample of 120 (n=20 school principals having minimum 7-8yrs. experience and n= 100 school teachers having minimum 5yrs.experience of senior classes) were taken. The ratio was 1:5 (1 principal and 5 teacher from the same school). The scores of 1 principal were assigned to 5 teachers. Teacher self-efficacy scale by Schwarzer, Schmitz and Daytner and Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire by Bass and Avolio were used to measure the above variables. The data were analysed with the help of Correlation and Regression technique. Obtained findings revealed the positive correlation of idealized influence, individualized consideration, contingent reward, management-by-exception and laissez-faire leadership with self-efficacy.

scholarly journals Predicting innovative work behaviors through transformational leadership

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-84
Author(s):  
Bruce Gashema
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Important Relationship ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Innovation Behavior

To stay competitive and viable in today's rapidly evolving and highly hostile market climate, companies need to concentrate more on innovation. In this regard, the specific quality of transformational leadership has been strongly linked to organizational innovativeness. However, the purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between transformational leadership and the innovation behavior of employees. The literature review developed in the current study is fundamentally centered on how transformational leaders value innovation by facilitating organizational learning to foster innovative behavior among employees. Corporate social responsibilities as an organizational level factor that can drive employee attitudes were also examined as a moderating effect in this relationship. The rationale of the relationship of the variables is supported by both transformational leadership theory (TFL) and social exchange theory (SET). Data were collected from corporate social responsibility engaged SMEs operating in Rwanda. Using Cranach’s alpha reliability and validity were tested while structural equation modeling (SEM) was used in analyzing data. The findings of this study intend to fill some gaps in the current literature such as the introduction of CSR in the relationship between top managerial level leadership, organizational learning, and innovation behavior of employees, also introducing SET to explain such important relationship

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