The impact of transformational leadership style on organizational learning capability with mediating role of organizational intelligence

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Article 3, Volume 6, Spring & summer 2015 - Serial Number 11, September 2015, Pages 1-28   

Document Type: Articles

DOI: 10.22067/pmt.v6i11.44303

Authors

Seddigheh Khorshid^* ; Atehfeh Pashazadeh

Abstract

In a rapidly changing environment, turbulent, unpredictable and full of uncertainty, organizations should have a productive, creative and continuous learning capability and potential in order to survive, grow, and accomplish goals in order to create superior value for all their stakeholders, especially customers. Such a learning capability of organization and its continuous development depends on numerous factors, including organizational intelligence (having a strategic vision, to be appetite for change, to care to human resources and manage on employees’ hearts, and knowledge deployment ...) and organization management's leadership style. This research intends to investigate the impact of transformational leadership style on organizational learning capability as well as the mediating role of organizational intelligence. The research method is descriptive-correlation. The statistical population consists of Telecommunications Infrastructure Company's employees, from which a sample of 472 was selected. The data was collected by using a questionnaire, and was analyzed by the descriptive and inferential statistical tests. The research findings showed that; transformational leadership style has significant, positive and direct effect on organizational intelligence, and learning capability while organizational intelligence has a significant, positive and direct impact on organizational learning capability. The results also showed that organizational intelligence is partially mediating the relationship between the transformational leadership style and organizational learning capability. The results of path analysis showed that the transformational leadership style has a significant and indirect impact on organizational capability through organizational intelligence.

Keywords

Transformational leadership; Organizational learning capability; Organizational intelligence

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