Is Transformational Leadership Beneficial?——A Meta-analysis on the Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Organizational Performance

Abstract

Abstract:

The relationship between transformational leadership and performance has been a focus of leadership theory researches. Most of researches focus on relationship between transformational leadership and personal or team performance. However, there is no consensus whether transformational leadership behavior can promote organizational performance. This study meta-analytically integrates results from piles of transformational leadership researches on organizational performance. It finds a positive significant relationship between transformational leadership and organizational performance. Then it explores this relationship from the perspective of performance types, cultural differences, organizational scales and the existence of mediators. It turns out that the transformational leadership has more obvious effect on subjective performance than on objective performance and the relationship is higher without the existence of mediators. But there are no significant difference for the relationship under the eastern and western culture and on different organizational scales.

Key words: transformational leadership, organizational performance, relationship, meta-analysis

Zhu Hui, Zhou Gengui. Is Transformational Leadership Beneficial?——A Meta-analysis on the Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Organizational Performance[J]. , 2016, 28(7): 179-187.

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