Transformacinės lyderystės bei etinio organizacijos klimato svarba darbuotojų organizaciniam įsipareigojimui

LTStraipsnyje analizuojama transformacinės lyderystės ir etinio organizacijos klimato svarba organizaciniam įsipareigojimui. Empiriniu tyrimu buvo siekiama atskleisti, kiek transformacinis vadovavimo elgesys bei jo veikiamas etinis organizacijos klimatas daro įtaką stiprinant Lietuvos darbuotojų organizacinį įsipareigojimą. [Iš leidinio]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Transformacinė lyderystė; Etinis organizacijos klimatas; Organizacinis įsipareigojimas; Transformational leadership; Ethical organizational climate; Organizational commitment.

ENOrganizational 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.Organizational ethical climate was assessed by Ethical Climate Questionnaire (Victor, Cullen, 1988). Organizational commitment questionnaire by L. W. Porter’s et al. (1974) was used to evaluate the level of employees’ organizational commitment (cit. according to Y ousef, 2003). The empirical research revealed that the more care, rules and codes, effectiveness or independence ethical climate dominates, the more employees are committed to the organization but when instrumental ethical climate is increasing, employees are less committed to the organization. In addition, the results show that transformational leadership style is positively related to care, laws and codes, effectiveness, and independence ethical climate and negatively related to instrumental ethical climate. Nevertheless, organizational commitment in male respondents was predicted by transformational leadership and three types of ethical climate: care, rules and codes and independence. Whereas organizational commitment in women was predicted only by care and codes, and independence ethical climate. Finally, transformational leadership has significant influence both direct on organizational commitment and through mediating variable i.e. care ethical climate. Though transformational leadership also affects codes and independence, instrumental, and effectiveness ethical climate, the latter types of ethical climate have no significant effect on organizational commitment. When these types of ethical climate are dominant in the organization, transformational leadership is more important antecedent of organizational commitment compared to ethical climate. [From the publication]