The influence of transactional, transformational leadership on leader-follower value congruence and leadership success

[摘要] Effective leadership drives an organisation's members to achieve a common purpose.Leaders must influence followers to work together to achieve one vision. Successfulleaders understand their own values and the values of their followers, in order to guideand direct behaviour. Shared values allow organisations to work together and act asone entity. Successful leaders instil a set of commonly held core values to ensure thatfollowers are working towards the same goals.The purpose of the study was to determine the influence of organisational leadershipon leader-follower value congruence and leadership success. The aim of the studywas to determine the relationship between transactional and transformationalleadership, leader-follower value congruence and leadership success. Engelbrecht's(2002) model was used as a theoretical framework.A literature study of leadership and leadership success, as well as values and valuecongruence in organisations was conducted. The relationship between theseconstructs was also analysed in the literature study.The sample comprised of employees of a large petroleum company in the WesternCape. The sample consisted of 162 leaders and subordinates. The sample comprisedof two subordinates for every leader. Each of the respondents completed Bass andAvolio's Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) and Langley's Values Scale (VS).Both the MLQ and VS were found reliable for the purpose of the study.The statistical analysis was conducted through correlation analyses. The resultsrevealed that transactional and transformational leadership have a direct and positiveinfluence on leadership success. Some support was found for the influence oftransactional leadership and transformational leadership on leader-follower valuecongruence. The results also indicated some support for the influence of leaderfollowervalue congruence on leadership success. Some support was found for the proposition that leader-follower value congruence mediates the relationship betweentransactional leadership and leadership success. Conclusions were drawn from the results obtained and recommendations for futureresearch are made.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University