Transformational Leadership

Research Methods - Article Review Assignment
Transformational Leadership & Organizational Commitment: Mediating role of Psychological empowerment and moderating role of structural distance
Objective
Examine the linkage and between transformational leadership and organizational commitment through positive psychological empowerment of employees. Also study the hierarchical distance between a leader and followers moderated the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational commitment.
Hypothesis 1
Psychological empowerment will mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and employees’ organizational commitment.
Hypothesis 2
Structural distance moderates the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational commitment such that transformational leadership will have a strong positive relationship with organizational commitment for followers who are structurally close to their supervisors than followers who are structurally distant from their supervisor.
Theoretical rationale behind Hypothesis 1
Psychological empowerment will mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and employees’ organizational commitment.
Spreitzer (1995, p.1443) defined empowerment as an intrinsic motivator that manifested on four cognitive characters (competence, impact, meaning and self determination) of an employee’s orientation to his/her work. Competence refers to feelings of self-efficacy or personal ability to successfully perform a given task. (Bandura, 1986). Impact refers to the degree to which the employee believes his/he tasks has an optimistic effect and he/she can influence organizational outcomes. Meaning refers to the importance individual places on his/her task. Self determination refers to feelings of autonomy in making decisions at work.
Transformational leadership theory emphasizes the role of empowerment as a central mechanism of building commitment to the organization’s objectives... [continues]

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