The impact of Transformational Leadership and the Mediating Effect of Employees’ Perception of Organizational Change on Affective, Normative and Continuance Commitment

In today’s dynamic business environment, organizational change is essential to remain continuously competitive in the changing environment.Despite the high awareness of the importance of change, statistics revealed that only one-third of organizational change efforts can be considered successful.Thu...

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Main Authors: Teck, Joshua Khun Loo, Pey, Huey Lee, Ai, Loon Low
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Language:English
Published: 2017
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spelling my.uum.repo.248372018-09-26T07:18:24Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/24837/ The impact of Transformational Leadership and the Mediating Effect of Employees’ Perception of Organizational Change on Affective, Normative and Continuance Commitment Teck, Joshua Khun Loo Pey, Huey Lee Ai, Loon Low HD28 Management. Industrial Management In today’s dynamic business environment, organizational change is essential to remain continuously competitive in the changing environment.Despite the high awareness of the importance of change, statistics revealed that only one-third of organizational change efforts can be considered successful.Thus, this research aimed at studying how transformational leadership is able to influence employees’ perception of the change and impact the different levels of commitment towards change in a multinational company in Malaysia.The partial least squares of structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) approach was deployed to validate and examine the research theoretical framework, and conduct the hypothesis testing.The result reveals transformational leadership and employees’ perception of the changes to be highly predictive of the employees’ commitment (affective, normative, and continuance commitment) with regard to the organizational changes.It also indicates that employees’ perception of the change has a significant mediating effect on the relationship between transformational leadership and affective, normative, and continuance commitment. Hence, management must be sensitive to employees’ reaction for the change initiatives to be successful and it is noteworthy for management to understand the employees’ perception of the changes, support their needs to cope with the changes in their effort to overcome these resistances. 2017-07-11 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/24837/1/2nd%20IRC%202017%2075.pdf Teck, Joshua Khun Loo and Pey, Huey Lee and Ai, Loon Low (2017) The impact of Transformational Leadership and the Mediating Effect of Employees’ Perception of Organizational Change on Affective, Normative and Continuance Commitment. In: 2nd International Research Conference on Economics Business and Social Sciences, 11-12 July 2017, Park Royal Hotel Penang Malaysia.
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Teck, Joshua Khun Loo
Pey, Huey Lee
Ai, Loon Low
The impact of Transformational Leadership and the Mediating Effect of Employees’ Perception of Organizational Change on Affective, Normative and Continuance Commitment
description In today’s dynamic business environment, organizational change is essential to remain continuously competitive in the changing environment.Despite the high awareness of the importance of change, statistics revealed that only one-third of organizational change efforts can be considered successful.Thus, this research aimed at studying how transformational leadership is able to influence employees’ perception of the change and impact the different levels of commitment towards change in a multinational company in Malaysia.The partial least squares of structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) approach was deployed to validate and examine the research theoretical framework, and conduct the hypothesis testing.The result reveals transformational leadership and employees’ perception of the changes to be highly predictive of the employees’ commitment (affective, normative, and continuance commitment) with regard to the organizational changes.It also indicates that employees’ perception of the change has a significant mediating effect on the relationship between transformational leadership and affective, normative, and continuance commitment. Hence, management must be sensitive to employees’ reaction for the change initiatives to be successful and it is noteworthy for management to understand the employees’ perception of the changes, support their needs to cope with the changes in their effort to overcome these resistances.
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author Teck, Joshua Khun Loo
Pey, Huey Lee
Ai, Loon Low
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Pey, Huey Lee
Ai, Loon Low
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title The impact of Transformational Leadership and the Mediating Effect of Employees’ Perception of Organizational Change on Affective, Normative and Continuance Commitment
title_short The impact of Transformational Leadership and the Mediating Effect of Employees’ Perception of Organizational Change on Affective, Normative and Continuance Commitment
title_full The impact of Transformational Leadership and the Mediating Effect of Employees’ Perception of Organizational Change on Affective, Normative and Continuance Commitment
title_fullStr The impact of Transformational Leadership and the Mediating Effect of Employees’ Perception of Organizational Change on Affective, Normative and Continuance Commitment
title_full_unstemmed The impact of Transformational Leadership and the Mediating Effect of Employees’ Perception of Organizational Change on Affective, Normative and Continuance Commitment
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