Transformacinės lyderystės bei etinio organizacijos klimato svarba darbuotojų organizaciniam įsipareigojimui

Abstract

Straipsnyje analizuojama transformacinės lyderystės ir etinio organizacijos klimato svarba organizaciniam įsipareigojimui. Empiriniu tyrimu buvo siekiama atskleisti, kiek tranformacinis vadovavimo elgesys bei jo veikiamas etinis organizacijos klimatas daro įtaką stiprinant Lietuvos darbuotojų organizacinį įsipareigojimą

Organizational commitment has attracted considerable attention in organizational behavior research as one of the most important psychological construct which has positive impact on effective work performance (Park, Rainey, 2007; Baotham, 2011), reduced absenteeism and turnover (Suliman, Al-Junaibi, 2010), acceptance and realization of organizational change (Vakola, Nikolaou, 2005), and other important outcomes at individual, organizational and national level. Therefore, achieving organizational effectiveness researchers are further searching new antecedents, which affect employee organizational commitment. The foreign empirical researches revealed that employees’ perception of dominant ethical norms in organization and manager’s transformational behavior based by ethical principals often have positive emotional outcomes and can create appropriate psychological climate to form and enhance organizational commitment. (Martin, Cullen, 2006; Shafer, Wang, 2010). However, there is no obvious answer whether transformational leadership style always enhances ethical organizational climate and in this way creates background for increasing organizational commitment (Sagnak, 2010; Engelbrecht et al., 2005). Therefore focusing attention to encouragement of foreign researchers to discover the alternatives to current assumptions of organizational commitment, we aimed to evaluate how leader’s transformational behaviour and ethical organizational climate, which is under the influence of a leader, help to enhance the level of Lithuanian employees’ organizational commitment. 207 people, working in various organizations in Lithuania, participated in the survey. Global transformational leadership scale (Carless et al., 2000) was used to evaluate transformational leadership style. [...]