Relationship between transformational leadership and organisational commitment : the mediating role of psychological empowerment

• 主要作者: Munirah Hanim, Binti Yusuf
• 格式: Final Year Project Report
• 語言: English; English
• 出版: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) 2008
• 主題: BF Psychology; H Social Sciences (General)
• 在線閱讀: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/22740/1/Relationship%20between%20transformational%20leadership...%2824%20pgs%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/22740/4/Relationship%20between%20transformational%20leadership...%28fulltext%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/22740/

This research examined the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational commitment. More importantly, this research was conducted to examine the mediating role of psychological empowerment in the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational commitment. A survey research method was used to gather 118 usable questionnaires from employees are working at the Western Digital, Sarawak Branch. Findings from Pearson correlation analysis showed that transformational leadership positively and significantly correlated with organizational commitment. This result shows that transformational leadership as an important antecedent of organizational commitment. Further, the outcomes of Stepwise regression analysis showed that relationship between psychological empowerment and transformational leadership positively and significantly correlated with organizational commitment. This result confirms that psychological empowerment does act as a full mediating variable in transformational leadership model of the organization as sample. Furthermore, implications of this study to transformational leadership theory and practice, methodological and conceptual limitations, as well as directions for future research are discussed.