Transformational Leadership and Organizational Commitment


This article entitled “Transformational Leadership and Organizational Commitment: A Cross-Cultural Perspective” sought to examine how a transformational leadership style could impact the level of employee commitment within an organization.  The researchers actually used Kouzes & Posner’s Leadership Practices Inventory to collect information about the company’s leadership culture and performed an in-depth analysis using the five leadership behaviors including Challenging the Process, Inspiring Shared Vision, Enabling Others to Act, Modeling the Way, and Encouraging the Heart as the basis for their leadership measurements.  This study demonstrated that a transformational leadership style was associated with higher organizational commitment by establishing a significant relationship between two well-known and verified models: the Kouzes & Posner model that we studied and the Meyer & Allen 3-Component Model for organizational commitment.  This study also confirmed that the ideas developed by Kouzes & Posner are actually very important and useful in the workplace, and we should always keep them in mind if we find ourselves in any kind of leadership or management role.  In addition, I found it interesting that the association between leadership and commitment did not differ between nationality, providing support for the idea that people are wired to respond to certain leadership behaviors, regardless of their demographics.

-Ashley

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