Transformational Leadership as an Effective Strategy to Improve Team Performance Excellence through Behavioural Integration

Abstract

Transformational leadership (TL) has become an important research topic in the field of business and management and is demonstrated as an important variable affecting how organizational members interact and function. TL method encourages and motivates employees to create and bring about the change necessary for the future success of the company. Accumulated literatures have evidenced the causal linkage between TL and team performance (TP). However, in spite of growing research on the significance of TL as a key contextual factor that determines innovative behavior, recent studies have not investigated the psychological mechanisms that link TL to employees’ innovative behavior throughout learning orientation thoroughly. Only limited research has disentangled how transformational leaders enhance managers’ teamwork (e.g. behavioral integration). Therefore, this article uses TL as the theoretical foundation and conducts a synthesized review to sort out evidence integrating teams engagement in team learning behaviours in the existing literature. The study suggests that cohesive teams can be developed by leaders who support an environment for learning or promote proactive learning behaviour and the behavioural integration of teams in the workplace. The findings show that TL has a positive moderating effect between external team learning and both TP outcomes. Results obtained also confirm that TL works through support for innovation, which in its turn interacts with climate for excellence. The moderating effect of organizational status was identified as well. In conclusion, the findings offer theoreti-cal and empirical valuable insights into how TL impacts TP through various mediating variables. Overall, our results demonstrate the importance of integrating dispersion and contextual variables into research models, in particular, previous performance and leadership consensus. This paper can be differentiated from past studies, as it thinks over an ensemble of TL style as an essential antecedent of TP and also enhances the knowledge of the researchers and practitioners about the leadership style that upshot to the TP. This will help the managers, researchers, organizational development specialists and employees who are seeking effective ways to support struggling employees in context to their team performance.