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Transformational Leadership and Employee Role Behavior: A Multiple-step and Multiple-media Model

LIU Gang   

  1. (School of Economics and Management, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130117,China)
  • Received:2019-12-06 Online:2020-06-10

Abstract: Taking the transformational organization as the research object, this paper constructs a double mediating model of the influence of transformational leadership on employees′ role behavior. Starting from the practical purpose of how to obtain the employees′ role behavior needed by the organization in the process of strategy implementation, this paper successively introduces the sense of organizational support and employee self-efficacy as mediating variables to form a multi-step and multi-media model for empirical research.The results show that transformational leadership has a certain direct impact on employees′ role-based behavior; meanwhile, perceived organizational support and change self-efficacy play a multi-step and multiple mediating role between transformational leadership and employee role-based behavior.This shows that in a changing organization, leaders need to break through the past management ideas, not only through testing and selection to obtain “perfect employees” who can effectively implement the strategy, but also need to try to control employees′ sense of organizational support and change self-efficacy through management means, and develop more employee role behaviors that can carry out efficient implementation to support organizational change.

Key words: transformational leadership, employee role behavior, organizational support, change self-efficacy