This study examined the etiology of transformational leadership in virtual team contexts. First, we compared 127 members of virtual decision-making teams with 135 members of traditional face-to-face teams in terms of the relationship between aspects of personality and the emergence of transformational leadership. The type of communication media (face-to-face versus “pure” virtual) was found to ...

nowadays, organizations are active in dynamic environments filled with changes and transformation. the requirement for surviving in such a situation is to create continuous organizational changes and upheavals, whether in behavioral dimension or structural one. in these organizational changes and upheavals, leadership and management have a determining role. therefore, the existence of knowledge...

This paper examines the role of transformational leadership as a motivational factor in the process of continuous enhancement of IT-based solutions in organizational settings. We investigate the moderating effect of transformational leadership on the relationship between the learning orientation of various informants in technology enhancement activities and their intent to contribute informatio...

We examined the positive impact of transformational leadership on IS success in organizations via two psychological mechanisms of system users’ – perceived organizational support and systems self-efficacy. Our conceptual model was assessed using a sample of 251employees from a multi-national bank in Korea. Overall, our results supported the hypothesized relationships: Transformational leadershi...

Although the effects of transformational leadership on task performance and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) are well-documented, the mechanisms that explain those effects remain unclear. We propose that transformational leadership is associated with the way followers view their jobs, in terms of Hackman and Oldham’s (1976) core job characteristics. Results of our study support a struc...

Transformational leadership has received a great significance in the leadership literature during the past two decades. However, this research is dominated by Western traditions and scant attention is paid to Asian traditions. Therefore, in this paper, the authors explore the relevance of Confucianism, an Asian tradition, and its significance in transformational leadership development. For this...

This study has two main goals: (a) to compare the relationship between transformational leadership and other important leadership styles (i.e., democratic versus autocratic or relations- and task-oriented leadership) and (b) to compare the effects of transformational leadership and the other styles on some important organizational outcomes such as employees' satisfaction and performance. For th...

The aim of this study is to investigate the different leadership styles of the workers and the influence of gender and culture on the leadership styles of the workers in Faculty of Technical and Vocational Education (FPTV), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). These studies concentrate on two leadership styles which are transformational leadership and transactional leadership. Transforma...

Transformational leadership has received a great significance in the leadership literature during the past two decades. However, this research is dominated by Western traditions and scant attention is paid to Asian traditions. Therefore, in this paper, the authors explore the relevance of Confucianism, an Asian tradition, and its significance in transformational leadership development. For this...