The Impact of Transformational Leadership on Individual and Team Performance: Evidence from Knowledge Work Teams

Author

Wu Xin ; Wu Zhiming

Author_Institution

Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Beihang Univ., Beijing

fYear

2007

fDate

21-25 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

4436

Lastpage

4439

Abstract

The current study explored the effect of transformational leadership of knowledge work team leaders on team members´ individual performance, which included both in-role behavior and organizational citizenship behavior(OCB), and team performance. Survey data was collected from a sample of 54 knowledge work teams in high-tech organizations in four cities of China. The results of hierarchical regression showed that relationship-oriented transformational leadership behaviors had a significant effect on team members´ OCB with leader-member exchange(LMX) as the mediator, and task-oriented transformational leadership behaviors had a significant effect on team members´ in-role behavior. Team- level OCB mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and team performance.

Keywords

knowledge management; organisational aspects; regression analysis; team working; China; hierarchical regression; high-tech organizations; individual performance; knowledge work teams; organizational citizenship behavior; relationship-oriented transformational leadership behaviors; task-oriented transformational leadership behaviors; team performance; Aggregates; Cities and towns; Collaboration; Cultural differences; Educational products; Knowledge engineering; Knowledge management; Lead; Psychology; Research and development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2007. WiCom 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1311-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2007.1094

Filename

4340869