EFFECTS OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP ON ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT IN TEXTILE SECTOR OF PAKISTAN

Abstract

Transformational leadership is a style of management in which the employees of an organization feel themselves more empowered in the decision making and organizational growth. This also makes the employees happy and motivate them to perform well and to become more loyal with the organizations. The term transformational leadership was introduced by (Bass B. M., Leadership: Good, better, best, 1985) as good, better and best management practices in any organizations. In Pakistan many textile industries are opting this management technique and having good organizational commitment in their employees. The aim of this study is including in looking at how transformational leadership ways of behaving, rousing and inspiring subordinates, intellectual stimulation, individualized consideration and idealized influence, affect different organizational results like employee fulfilment, responsibility, efficiency, and advancement. In this study the research has been performed on the evaluation of 165 those employees who are working in Pakistan textile industries under the transformational leadership and their organizational commitment is recorded. Two structured and adopted questionnaires have been used separately for the recording of the transformational leadership and organizational commitment responses from the same respondent. Correlational analysis, Principal component analysis (PCA), Discriminant validity and linear regression have been used for the examination of hypotheses. It has been obtained a strong and substantial positive connection between transformational leadership and the organizational commitment of the employees of textile industry in Pakistan. Furthermore, there obtained a significant positive effect of transformational leadership on the organizational commitment in the same context. It is also recommended in the light of the results of the current research to use some more indicators like job satisfaction, perks and benefits etc. to study the organizational commitment of the employee