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Journal article

Transformational leadership climate: Performance linkages, mechanisms, and boundary conditions at the organizational level

Authors list: Menges, Jochen I.; Walter, Frank; Vogel, Bernd; Bruch, Heike

Publication year: 2011

Pages: 893-909

Journal: The Leadership Quarterly: An International Journal of Political, Social and Behavioral Science

Volume number: 22

Issue number: 5

ISSN: 1048-9843

eISSN: 1873-3409

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.07.010

Publisher: Elsevier

Abstract:

Transformational leadership (TFL) climate describes the degree to which leaders throughout an organization engage in TFL behaviors. In this study, we investigate performance linkages, mechanisms, and boundary conditions of TFL climate at the organizational level of analysis. In a sample of 158 independent organizations, 18,094 employees provided data on TFL climate, positive affective climate, trust climate, and employees' task performance behavior and organizational citizenship behavior. In addition, human resource managers rated overall employee productivity. Study results yielded a pattern of moderated mediation for overall employee productivity and employees' aggregate task performance behavior, in that an organization's TFL climate was indirectly (through positive affective climate) related with these outcome variables under conditions of high trust climate, but not under conditions of low trust climate. Further, we found an organization's TFL climate to indirectly relate with employees' aggregate organizational citizenship behavior through positive affective climate, largely independent of the level of trust climate.

Authors/Editors

- Uni.-Prof. Dr. Frank Heiko Walter

Citation Styles

Harvard Citation style: Menges, J., Walter, F., Vogel, B. and Bruch, H. (2011) Transformational leadership climate: Performance linkages, mechanisms, and boundary conditions at the organizational level, The Leadership Quarterly: An International Journal of Political, Social and Behavioral Science, 22(5), pp. 893-909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.07.010

APA Citation style: Menges, J., Walter, F., Vogel, B., & Bruch, H. (2011). Transformational leadership climate: Performance linkages, mechanisms, and boundary conditions at the organizational level. The Leadership Quarterly: An International Journal of Political, Social and Behavioral Science. 22(5), 893-909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.07.010