Abstract
Transformational leadership is considered one of the main leadership styles that influence organizational and individual outcomes to achieve competitive advantage. This study aims to identify the relationship between some dimensions of transformational leadership namely: Idealized Influence, Inspirational motivation, Intellectual stimulation and empowerment, and change management in Jordanian Insurance companies. A questionnaire was developed to investigate the dimensions of the study and was applied to a sample that consisted of 500 respondents. SPSS package was utilized to analyze the quantitative data. The study has concluded that the dimensions of the transformational leadership (Idealized Influence, Inspirational motivation, Intellectual stimulation and Empowerment) and change management are available in Jordanian Insurance companies. The study contributes by recommending organizations to conduct and organize training courses to enhance the capability of the workers by promoting empowerment’s behaviors, also taking into account the individual differences between the employees, particularly in assigning work and tasks.
Highlights
Nowadays, change and managing it successfully has become at the top priorities of business organizations whatsoever their activities, for reasons such that organizations live in a state of accelerated developments and high turnovers
This subject has occupied the interest of the researchers as the concept of transformational leadership has become a basic element in modern organizations
Change is a fundamental trait of transformational leadership, as in the current leadership literature, transformational change is based on the change that will be made in the behavior and attitudes of followers (Bass 1985)
Summary
Change and managing it successfully has become at the top priorities of business organizations whatsoever their activities, for reasons such that organizations live in a state of accelerated developments and high turnovers. Many researchers have agreed that the subject of effective leadership strategy is a continuously updated (Michael 2008). The ability to deal with change effectively requires a leadership behavior to be coincided with the work of the organization that is called by Burns (1978) transformational leadership. This subject has occupied the interest of the researchers as the concept of transformational leadership has become a basic element in modern organizations. This study pursues to highlight the level of adopting transformational leadership dimensions and its relationship with change management in Jordanian insurance companies
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