Abstract
PurposeA leader plays an important role in the growth of an organization. The leader is a person who influences the standards, structure, culture and behaviour of the individuals employed in the organization. A leader also has effects on the result and productivity of teams. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of transformational leadership style on team performance. This paper will also analyze the existence of a relationship between transformational leadership style and team performance.Design/methodology/approachFor this study, the researcher collected the data from 354 individuals employed in IT organizations in Pune. The team members answered questions asked about the transformational leadership style, and the team leaders answered questions related to team performance. The data has been analyzed using the latest available version of Statistical Product and Service Solutions.FindingsThe results of this examination suggest that there is strong and positive relationship between the transformational leadership style and team performance. Further, it was also found that transformational leader helps in a great way in improving team performance which in turn increases the organization’s productivity.Research limitations/implicationsFew limitations of this research work are that the data collected for this research work is non-cognitive in nature and simultaneously respondents may incline to evaluate the positive facets of opinion poll more propitiously than negative facets. Secondly, the data have been collected only from companies located in Pune.Practical implicationsThis research study provides empirical data that will be helpful for human resources department of an organization, as it can help them in the development of policies and practices. It will also provide help leaders to support employees who are seeking effective ways to support struggling employees in context to their team performance.Originality/valueThe present study can be differentiated from past studies, as it thinks over an ensemble of transformational leadership style as an essential antecedent of team performance and also enhances the knowledge of the researchers and practitioners about the leadership style that upshot to the team performance. This will also help the managers, researchers, organizational development specialist and employees who are seeking effective ways to support struggling employees in context to their team performance.
Highlights
Leader is a person who fascinates the people who are required to accomplish organizational goals
The correlation coefficient was used to test the relationship between transformational leadership style and team performance; the results showed that there is significant relationship between the both the variables considered for the present study
This result suggests that the team leaders who exhibit transformational leadership style; the performance of their team will increase significantly by 78.1%
Summary
Leader is a person who fascinates the people who are required to accomplish organizational goals. Fiedler (1996) is one of the most esteemed leadership researchers, who talks about the association between leadership and team performance and found that progress or setback of a team, organization or whole society is dependent on leader’s effectiveness to lead them. A leader can be considered as truly transformational if he/she creates the cognizance of righteousness, moral, significant and attractive, at the time they assist the followers in lifting their desires for accomplishment and self-fulfillment, at the time they nurture team members good spirit as well as encourages them to work far away from their self-interests for the best of their team, company or the community. According to Moura (2018), Haque (2017) modifications in the commercial center and in the personnel prompted a necessity to embrace a transformational leadership style These pioneers cultivate adherents to go beyond their own expedience, lifting their development just as indicating worry for accomplishment, self-completion and prosperity of subordinates. We will analyze the relationship between transformational leadership and team performance, using organizational teams of IT sector
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