Geo Baby; Dr. K. George Varghese(Cochin University of Science and Technology, December 22, 2016)
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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.