Implicit Motives as Missing Link Between Transformational Leadership Behaviors and Follower Outcomes

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 12593
Author(s):  
Hugo M. Kehr ◽  
Dorena Graff ◽  
Cafer Bakaç
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Implicit Motives ◽  
Missing Link

scholarly journals In the Eye of the Beholder: How Self-Other Agreements Influence Leadership Training Outcomes as Perceived by Leaders and Their Followers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Nielsen ◽  
Susanne Tafvelin ◽  
Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz ◽  
Henna Hasson
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Leadership Training ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
Training Outcomes ◽  
Contingent Reward ◽  
Leaders And Followers ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
Prospective Study Design

AbstractBased on Yammarino and Atwater’s self-other agreement typology of leaders, we explored whether leaders’ and followers’ agreement influenced their ratings of leadership behaviors after training where leaders received multi-source feedback to stimulate behavior change. We used a prospective study design including 68 leaders and 237 followers from a Swedish forest industry company. Leaders underwent training to increase their transformational leadership and contingent reward styles and reduce management-by-exception passive and laissez-faire leadership. We found that self-other agreement influences followers and leaders reporting changes in leadership styles. We also found that although some leader types were perceived to improve their leadership behaviors, leaders and followers reported differential patterns in which types of leaders improved the most. Our results have important implications for how feedback should be used to support training to achieve changes in leadership styles.

Effectiveness of full range leadership development among middle managers

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (9) ◽  
pp. 1161-1180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teerapun Chaimongkonrojna ◽  
Peter Steane
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Effective Leadership ◽  
Middle Managers ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Full Range Leadership ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the Full Range Leadership Development Program (FR-LDP) of middle managers of a furniture company in Thailand and explore how they experience the leadership development phenomenon. It addresses the fundamental question of how effective leadership behaviors occur and are sustained. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 31 middle managers completed a six-month multi-methods development program of three alternating training sessions and on-the-job practice. A 360-degree feedback survey of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire 5X Short, comprising 284 questionnaires of “leaders” and “raters,” was used to measure the change in effective leadership behaviors and the overall leadership outcome. A sub-sample of 20 participants from these managers was selected for in-depth interviews at the end of the intervention. Semi-structured interviews and critical incident analysis was applied to understand the leadership experience of these managers. Findings – The study revealed that leadership behavior and overall outcome performance had improved over the course of the FR-LDP. The program did contribute positively to individual learning. Sustained effectiveness was not due solely to the development or intervention process, but also on individual objectives and action, together with supervisor interest and support. Research limitations/implications – The study provides a valid, in-depth insight into leadership in Thailand, which has practical application. However, the size of the sample may not be sufficient for broad generalizations in other cultural contexts or environments. Originality/value – The study extends the understanding of how middle managers develop transformational leadership in Thailand. The study contributes to how middle managers learn what they need to know, how they get to know it and factors that influence their practice of transformational leadership in their workplace. The findings provide to organizations options on resources, talent retention and sustaining organizational performance.

Relationship between transformational leadership behaviors and manufacturing strategy

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Birasnav
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Leadership Behavior ◽  
Transformational Leaders ◽  
Manufacturing Strategy ◽  
Manufacturing Environment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cost Strategy ◽  
Research Studies

Purpose – It is widely agreed that top management's leadership behavior is a source for achieving and sustaining competitive advantage. Very few research studies analyzed the prevalence of transformational leadership style in the manufacturing environment, and importantly, the associations between transformational behaviors and manufacturing strategies in connection with flexibility, quality, delivery, and cost are not yet deeply explored in the literature. In this direction, efforts are initiated to explain the relationships between transformational leadership behaviors and manufacturing strategies in this study. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – A systematic literature review was conducted by analyzing all traditional and contemporary research studies in the fields of leadership and operations management in order to examine the link between transformational leadership and manufacturing strategies comprising of flexibility, quality, delivery, and cost strategy. Findings – It was found from the review that top-level leaders exhibit transformational leadership behaviors while implementing manufacturing strategies in their firms. In particular, transformational leaders are capable to transform the production system into flexible system, and in addition, they develop new production processes for manufacturing both new and old products. Such leaders ensure quality in all the levels of production process and support to speed up order delivery process with the help of technology. Finally, they also concentrate on reducing cost growth. Research limitations/implications – This study is bounded by its focus on Bass and Avolio's transformational leadership behaviors and Ward and Duray's manufacturing strategies comprising of flexibility, quality, delivery, and cost strategy. Originality/value – This study shows that transformational leaders, in the manufacturing environment, use manufacturing strategy as a tool to improve operational performance. Thus, they have potential to achieve and sustain competitive advantage through formulation of manufacturing strategy.

scholarly journals Transformational Leadership and Task Cohesion in Sport: The Mediating Role of inside Sacrifice

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorcan Donal Cronin ◽  
Calum Alexander Arthur ◽  
James Hardy ◽  
Nichola Callow
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Division I ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Task Cohesion ◽  
And Task

In this cross-sectional study, we examined a mediational model whereby transformational leadership is related to task cohesion via sacrifice. Participants were 381 American (Mage = 19.87 years, SD = 1.41) Division I university athletes (188 males, 193 females) who competed in a variety of sports. Participants completed measures of coach transformational leadership, personal and teammate inside sacrifice, and task cohesion. After conducting multilevel mediation analysis, we found that both personal and teammate inside sacrifice significantly mediated the relationships between transformational leadership behaviors and task cohesion. However, there were differential patterns of these relationships for male and female athletes. Interpretation of the results highlights that coaches should endeavor to display transformational leadership behaviors as they are related to personal and teammate inside sacrifices and task cohesion.

Self-determined leader motivation and follower perceptions of leadership

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 608-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Gilbert ◽  
E. Kevin Kelloway
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Leadership Behavior ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Follower Perceptions ◽  
Cross Sectional Design ◽  
Perceptions Of Leaders ◽  
Perceptions Of Leadership

Purpose A critical assumption of the organizational leadership literature is that leaders want to engage in effective leadership behaviors (Gilbert and Kelloway, 2014). However, leaders may vary in their motivation to be effective in a leadership role, leading to different levels of performance. Drawing on self-determination theory, the authors address the question of what motivates leaders to engage in transformational leadership behaviors (Gilbert et al., 2016). The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The current study examined the effects of self-determined leader motivation for transformational leadership on aggregated follower leadership ratings using a sample of 37 leaders matched with 179 followers in two organizations. Findings Results show how leaders’ own motivation relates to followers’ perceptions of leader behavior, and specifically that, across contexts, some autonomous levels of leader motivation are positively related to follower perceptions of leaders’ active-constructive leadership and negatively related to follower perceptions of passive avoidant leadership. Research limitations/implications The research is limited by a small level-two sample size and cross-sectional design. The results suggest that some forms of leader motivation relate to follower ratings of leadership behavior. Originality/value This study is the first to examine how self-determined motivation for transformational leadership predicts follower perceptions of leadership behavior using a multilevel design.

scholarly journals Promoting the underestimated: A vignette study on the importance of the need for affiliation to successful leadership

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 641-656
Author(s):  
Barbara Steinmann ◽  
Anne Kleinert ◽  
Günter W. Maier
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Implicit Motives ◽  
Need For Affiliation ◽  
Vignette Study ◽  
Need For Power ◽  
Successful Leadership ◽  
Success Indicators ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Research on the relationship of implicit motives and effective leadership emphasises the importance of a socialised need for power, whereas high levels of the need for affiliation are assumed to thwart a leader’s success. In our study, we experimentally analysed the impact of leaders’ socialised need for power and their need for affiliation on perceptions of transformational leadership and various success indicators. Using paper-people vignettes, we contrasted leaders characterised by either motive with those concerned with personalised power or achievement. Results based on N = 80 employees show that leaders high in socialised power were rated more successful and elicited more identification and organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) in followers, and that in most cases this effect was mediated by perceptions of transformational leadership. For all outcomes but OCB, findings remained unchanged when affiliation-motivated leaders were considered. Exploratory analyses contrasting socialised power-motivated and affiliation-motivated leaders show that with regard to attitudinal outcomes affiliation-motivated leaders were, on average, as effective as socialised power-motivated ones.

scholarly journals Transformational Leadership Behaviors of High School Students’ According to Leisure Preferences and Participation Type

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Umit Dogan Ustun
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Transactional Leadership ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Leadership Behavior ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Nonparametric Tests ◽  
School Students ◽  
Transformational And Transactional Leadership

This paper aimed to investigate the transformational leadership behavior of high school students according to leisurepreferences and participation type. 226 high school students attending Bursa Atatürk High School participated in thestudy voluntarily. In the study, to collect data transformational and transactional leadership scale developed byBaşoğlu (2013a) was revised and used. The construct validity of the scale assessed by confirmatory & explanatoryfactor analyzes. To investigate the differences between the participants' transformational leadership behavior KruskalWallis and Mann Whitney U nonparametric tests used. As a result, this study showed that students who chosephysical activities and who actively involved in leisure activities showed more transformational leadership than theother students.

The generalizability of transformational leadership across cultures: a meta-analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Crede ◽  
Jaehee Jong ◽  
Peter Harms
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Analytic Review ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the effectiveness of transformational leadership behaviors are moderated by a country’s cultural values and cultural practices. Design/methodology/approach The authors describe a meta-analytic review of the relationship between transformational leadership and employee performance (task performance and OCBs) using data from over 57,000 individuals, 215 samples and 34 countries. The authors examine whether this relationship is moderated by the cultural values and practices of the country in which the study was located – after first controlling for methodological factors. Findings The authors find that cultural values and practices moderate the transformational leadership – employee performance relationship such that the relationship is much stronger in countries whose culture is incongruent with transformational leadership. Research limitations/implications Data were only available for 34 countries and it is unclear what role industry type and job type play in determining transformational leadership effectiveness or if these situational variables are confounded with culture. The findings call into question the generalizability of transformational leadership across countries and cultures. Practical implications The findings suggest that the value of transformational leadership behaviors may be limited in developed economies such as Western Europe and North America, while transformational leadership is most effective in Africa, the Middle East, South America and parts of Southeast Asia. Originality/value This is the first paper to examine the generalizability of transformational leadership across 34 countries and is by far the largest review ever conducted into the relationship between transformational leadership and subordinate performance.

scholarly journals Perception of assistant teaching staff of their leaders’ transformational leadership behaviors and its relation to their organizational citizenship behaviors in Suez Canal University

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Amora Nasser Hamed Mostafa ◽  
Wafaa Abd El-Azeem El-hosany ◽  
Nehad Ezz EL-Din Fekry
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Significant Positive Correlation ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behaviors ◽  
Suez Canal ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Citizenship Behaviors ◽  
Positive Correlation

Background and objective: Heads of academic departments are the first line leaders who directly influence the quality of their departments, transformational leadership has been demonstrated as an effective leadership style in leading organizations and motivating the subordinates to do more than what is being expected. This study aimed to assess the perception of assistant teaching staff of their leaders’ transformational leadership behaviors and its relation to their organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) in Suez Canal University.Methods: The studied sample was 456 of assistant teaching staff working at 13 faculties in Suez Canal University. Data collected using self-administrated questionnaire consists of two tools: transformational leadership scale, and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) scale, both likert types rating scale.Results: More than two thirds (65.2%) of the participated assistant teaching staff perceived their leaders as having unsatisfactory transformational leadership behaviors, two thirds (66.4%) of them were satisfied with their organizational citizenship behaviors, and there was significant positive correlation between transformational leadership behaviors and OCBs.Conclusions: There was significant positive correlation between transformational leadership behaviors and OCBs.

scholarly journals The impact of transformational leadership on organizational and leadership effectiveness

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 708-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hakan Erkutlu
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Leadership Effectiveness ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Line Managers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Boutique Hotels ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of leadership behaviors on both organizational and leader effectiveness at boutique hotels.Design/methodology/approachA total of 722 subjects (60 managers and 662 non‐managerial employees) participated in this study from 60 boutique hotels. Participants were told that the study was designed to collect information on the leadership styles used by managers and on the satisfaction and commitment of employees in the hospitality workforce. Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire, Organizational Commitment Questionnaire and Job Descriptive Index were used to assess leadership behaviors of the boutique hotels' first‐line managers and commitment and satisfaction levels of employees, respectively.FindingsThere are significant relations between leadership behaviors and both organizational and leadership effectiveness. The findings support the suggestion in the literature that transformational leadership behaviors stimulate organizational commitment and job satisfaction in the hospitality industry.Research limitations/implicationsThere are several limitations that could be future research topics, such as hotels' source of funding, demographic characteristics of the participants. There is a question about the generalizability of these findings to other hospitality organizations such as four or five‐star hotels.Originality/valueThis paper explores an aspect of leadership in the hospitality industry that is often neglected. It provides compelling evidence for the importance of continuing the efforts to understand the nature of the leadership behaviors‐effectiveness connection.

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