Strategic human resource management, transformational leadership organizational ambidexterity: evidence from Taiwan

Abstract

This study integrates theories of transformational leadership (TFL) and organizational ambidexterity in strategic human resource management (SHRM), to examine how TFL at both the unit level and firm level influences unit-level organizational ambidexterity (OA), by transforming the unit-level trust and forming the firm-level trust climate in Taiwanese software firms in an Asia-Pacific context. The results revealed that unit-level TFL was positively related to unit-level OA, and this relationship was moderated by firm-level TFL. Furthermore, firm-level trust climate (TC) partially mediated the relationship between firm-level TFL and unit-level OA. Finally, firm-level TC further moderated the moderating relationship of firm-level TFL between unit-level TFL and unit-level OA.