| Article ID: | iaor20011202 |
| Country: | South Korea |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 105 |
| End Page Number: | 124 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2000 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Korean ORMS Society |
| Authors: | Yoo Dong-Keun, Cho Im-Hyun |
| Keywords: | statistics: inference |
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships among transformational leadership, group-efficacy, and group performance. A total of 321 employees of a fire and marine insurance firm in Seoul anonymously completed the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire-Form V, which consists of three factors (charisma, individualized consideration and intellectual stimulation) for transformational leadership, and two factors (contingent reward and management by exception) for transactional leadership. The sample, which largely consists of sales supervisors and salesmen, includes 41 sales office branches. The findings of the study are as follows. Transformational leadership is closely associated with group-efficacy and group performance. That is, there are significant correlations between transformational factors and group-efficacy, between the factors and group performance, and between group-efficacy and group performance. A stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed that transformational leadership augmented the subordinates's extra efforts. It was also found that group-efficacy was mediating the relationship between transformational leadership and group performance. The managerial implications of these findings and future directions of research are also discussed.