Transformational Leadership and Organizational Processes: Influencing Public Performance

Abstract

Leaders are essential actors in public performance improvement and organizational change. However, a key question has not been adequately addressed in prior literature on the topic: how do leadership processes make a difference? Using data on New York City public schools, this article explores the organizational mechanisms by which a specific form of principal ' s leadership-transformational leadership-influences objective organizational outcomes as measured by standardized test scores. The empirical results indicate that a principal ' s transformational leadership style affects student test scores through the mediating effects of purposeful performance information use and stakeholder engagement.

The Impact of Transformational Leadership on Employee Retention: Mediation and Moderation Through Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Communication

“…ER has always been a significant concern for organizations because experienced employees make vital contributions to the success of an organization (Das and Baruah, 2013). Additionally, ER fundamentally impacts the longevity of organizations, even though it is a challenging task in this age of intense competition (Das and Baruah, 2013;Arachchillage and Senevirathna, 2017;Kaur, 2017;Nelms, 2018;Sulamuthu and Yusof, 2018). Scholars have discussed two levels of retention: individual and group turnover (Muir and Li, 2014).…”

How transformational leadership positively impacts organizational citizenship behavior in successful Chinese social work service organizations

“…TFL has been proven to have an important positive impact on organization performance (Kroll & Vogel, 2014;Moynihan, Pandey, & Wright, 2011;Oberfield, 2012;Park & Rainey, 2008;Sun & Henderson, 2017;Trottier, Van Wart, & Wang, 2008). In the field of social work service, TFL has also begun to receive attention (Fisher, 2005(Fisher, , 2009.…”

Linking transformational leadership and value congruence among Chinese police force: The mediating role of goal clarity and the moderating role of public service motivation

“…Another important subject to investigate is how transformational leaders can lead to goal clarity. Recent developments argue that transformational leaders utilise rich communication channels such as face‐to‐face conversations to transmit information (Jensen et al., ), while others emphasise the importance of culture (Sun & Henderson, ; Sun & Wang, ) and job design (Andersen & Bøllingtoft, ; Jensen, ). Future studies are needed to tackle how transformational leaders set up clear goals to followers.…”

“…According to the relational job design perspective (Grant, ; Steijn & van der Voet, ), seeing the job as important, meaningful, and helpful would give public employees a sense of purpose, which is essentially clarifying the goals. Second and more specifically, transformational leaders would establish performance management systems (Moynihan, Pandey, et al., ; Sun & Henderson, ). Performance management system provides clear task specialisation and result criterion.…”