Transformational Leadership and Learning Organization: A Study with Special Reference to the Organizational Leadership in Kerala

Abstract

There are various studies conducted on transformational leadership and learning organization. The term gets more importance in current scenario as the technological advancement and many other factors made organization unsustainable without learning culture. The objective of this study was to identify relationship between transformational leadership and learning organizations. The study was conducted in 27 organizations inside Kerala and the tools used for the study are Multifactor leadership questionnaire (MLQ) 21 items by Bernad M Bass and B J Avolio and the Dimensions of learning organizations questionnaire (DLOQ) 43 items by Watkins and Marsick. The study has used confirmatory factor analysis, one way ANOVA, Pearson correlation analysis and Canonical discriminant function analysis for deriving the results. The result of this research proves that, there is a significant relationship between transformational leadership and learning organization. There is a significant positive impact of the factors of Transformational leadership i.e. idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, individual consideration, contingent reward, management by exception and laissez faire leadership in discriminating high, medium and low learning organization.