Effects of Transformational Leadership on Organizational Identification and Adaptive Performance in Health Care Industry

Abstract

In consideration of global economy, business management should adapt to such environmental changes. Under such dynamic background, it is emergent to seek for excellent change leaders. Based on such background, researchers propose the idea of transformational leadership, stressing on how such a leadership style effectively manages employees and induces employees’ advanced requirements to create larger value for the business, satisfy employees’ personal needs, as well as realize effective coordinated development between employees’ individual performance and organizational goals. Cross-regional health care related enterprises in Shandong Province are selected as the research samples for this study. Total 300 participants, standing for various roles, backgrounds, and experiences in modern enterprises, are invited to provide rich and diverse data for this study. Mature domestic and international scales are adopted for the research. The results reveal positive effects of transformational leadership on employees’ adaptive performance, definite and significant effects of transformational leadership on organizational identification, as well as definite and remarkable effects of organizational identification on adaptive performance. Finally, corresponding suggestions in management are proposed, expecting that both leaders and employees, when facing complicated environment and work requirements, could contribute to the long-term development of the organizations.