In the article, EFFECTS
OF LEARNING CAPABILITY, TECHNOLOGY CHANGE, GLOBALIZATION FORCE, BUSINESS
EXPERIENCE, AND ENVIRONMNETAL COMPLEXITY ON TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP:
EVIDENCE FROM THAILAND, Phapruke Ussahawanitchakit studies how much of an
influence each of these has on transformational leadership. This is important
because leaders need to know how to create and drive transformational
leadership. The author uses this definition of transformational leadership, “Transformational
leadership refers to an ability of leaders to motivate subordinates to achieve
performance beyond expectations by transforming the subordinates’ attitudes,
beliefs and values as opposed to simply gaining compliance (Rafferty and
Griffin, 2004).”
The study uses hypothesis testing to individually test if
and how much transformational leadership is influenced by these factors. The
study used 111 Thai technology businesses as its sample. The conclusions of the
study show that transformational leadership is greatly affected by globalization
force. Business experience has a lot of influence on transformational leadership.
Environmental complexity may have some influence on transformational
leadership. The interesting conclusions were that learning capability and technology
change were not related with transformational leadership.
Managers can use this knowledge to create greater
transformational leadership within their firms by focusing on globalization,
gaining experience in business, and environmental complexity. The study shows
that these will have the greatest impact upon the level of transformational
leadership within a firm.
Works Cited
Ussahawanitchakit, Phapruke. "Effects Of Learning
Capability, Technology Change, Globalization Force, Business Experience, And
Environmnetal Complexity On Transformational Leadership: Evidence From
Thailand." Journal Of International Business & Economics 11.2
(2011): 84-97. Business Source Complete. Web. 22 July 2012.
I agree with you, understanding your organization, your workers and other surrounds would make you a good transformational leadership. That would be because you are understanding the different needs in the organizations and are capable of meeting them.
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