We investigated the impact of transactional and transformational leadership styles on organizational citizenship behaviors. The sample consisted of 213 workers of both genders who answered the Multifactorial Leadership Scale and the Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCB) Scale. The multiple linear regression showed that: the transactional leadership style positively predicted the OCB dimens...

background: effective leadership is essential to passing through obstacles facing the health field. the current health care system in iran has major problems and gaps in the field of effective leadership. the aim of this study was to evaluate hospital managers’ leadership style through self-assessment and to determine the correlation between leadership styles with healthcare executives’ leaders...

a r t i c l e i n f o This study examines a comprehensive model comprising of various relationships between transformational and transactional leadership, knowledge management (KM) process, and organizational performance. Data are collected from human resource managers and general managers working in 119 service firms. Exploratory factor analysis and hierarchical regression analysis are used to...

the purpose of this study is investigate the relationship between consequences of leadership and transformational leadership style in presidents of universities and institutes of tehran, 30 presidents in tehran and 102 raters (subordination of presidents) response to third edition of multifactor leadership questionnaire mlq (leader and rater version). the data were analyzed taking in to conside...

After establishing that leadership is one of the critical success factors in IS projects with the support of literature, this study examines the most appropriate leadership style at the project management level for the successful execution of IS projects. The suitability of Transformational Leadership style in an IS project environment is tested in a survey of Australian IS projects. The leader...

if today's organizations are not able to adopt themselves with environmental changes, they will lose the competition. in such a condition, organizations are in need of leaders who are capable of turning their companies into one having more ability to progress and even to survive in those situations. transformational leaders guide organization from present to the future and apply suitable change...

this study aimed to find the relationship between communication skills and leadership styles. the methodology of this field study was descriptive-correlation. a sample of sixty five isfahan’s media managers who were chosen randomly participated in this study. the standard multi-factor leadership questionnaire and communication skills questionnaire were used to collect data. the collected data w...

Handling Editor: Shelly Dionne Network scholars argue that one responsibility of leaders is to help their followers develop social capital.We suggest that oneway leaders do this is by encouraging followers to engage in networking behavior. However, we argue that such encouragement is more effective when leaders are seen as less transformational, because followers are then less able to benefit f...

Two different types of development tasks are distinguished: Clear and unclear development tasks. Based on hypotheses from organizational theory two different designs of software development are derived. The transformational design is appropriate if the development task is clear. In case of an unclear development task software development should employ the adaptive design. The transformational d...

A comparison of the effects of transactional and transformational leadership in synchronous and a synchronous online teamwork was conducted. In the study, groups of four participants interacted in online text chat and online text forum in problem solving tasks. The groups were leaded by a confederate who acted as a transactional or a transformational leader. Satisfaction in the interactions and...