Abstract
Today, organizations are deeply concerned with developing leadership that can lead from a distance. Given the pace of change in the work environment and organizational culture, leaders need to be very proactive in their approaches as all the organizations are working in virtual teams connected through Information and Communication Technologies. Organizations nowadays heavily rely on such teams to accomplish their work and goals. These novel teams require a good leadership style to bind virtual team employees' together and imbibe an appropriate culture to meet the demands of the changing environments. Therefore, the current study explored the relationship between transformational leadership, organizational culture, and change management among employees' of virtual teams. Also, the aim extended to examine the mediating role of organizational culture on the relationship between transformational leadership and change management among virtual team employees', for which partial least squares-structural equation modeling was applied. In order to meet the objectives, the study utilized a survey method on employees of IT organizations. The non-probability sampling technique used was purposive and convenience. Data was gathered from 118 respondents who worked in virtual team employees' of the IT sector from the Delhi-NCR The results revealed that transformational leadership and organizational culture were positively and significantly related to change management. Organizational culture partially mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and change management among virtual team employees'. The current study contributes to the additional literature among employees' of virtual teams, transformational leadership, and organizational culture that continues to grow.
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