The Relationship Between Transformational Leadership Style and Organizational Effectiveness in United Nations Development Programme/Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People UNDP/PAPP

Majority of the Palestinian organizations' leaders utilize the transactional leadership style, which led to very low rates of satisfaction, effectiveness, and efficiency(As-Sadeq & Khoury 2005). Based on this result of As-Sadeq and Khoury (2005) study the researchers suggested that the meth...

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Main Author: Abuowda, Abdallatif M. A.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
eng
Published: 2010
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Online Access:https://etd.uum.edu.my/2507/1/Abdallatif_M._A._Abuowda.pdf
https://etd.uum.edu.my/2507/2/1.Abdallatif_M._A._Abuowda.pdf
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Summary:Majority of the Palestinian organizations' leaders utilize the transactional leadership style, which led to very low rates of satisfaction, effectiveness, and efficiency(As-Sadeq & Khoury 2005). Based on this result of As-Sadeq and Khoury (2005) study the researchers suggested that the methods of leading those organizations need for rehabilitation, restructuring, and the Palestinian organizations leaders need to utilize more comprehensive model of leadership to develop and enhance the subordinates' quality and performance and thus the organizational effectiveness. So this study conducted to investigate the impact of utilizing the transformational leadership style in leading the Palestinian organizations in order to get them successfully to create positive desired outcome and organizational effectiveness. This study was designed to determine the relationship between the factors of transformational leadership which are idealized influence; inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration and the organizational effectiveness measured by organizational commitment and job satisfaction among the employees at UNDP/PAPP. This Research was executed by a quantitative method. The participants in this study were the subordinates at UNDP/PAPP, 56 questionnaires were distributed to the respondents, and 52 questionnaires were returned. The data analyzed by SPSS version 14. Finally, the correlation analysis was used to measure the data for the variables are expressed. The result of this study showed that all the factors of transformational leadership which are idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration are positively and strongly correlated to both the organizational commitment and job satisfaction. These findings are consistent with many of the previous studies finding that transformational leadership related strongly and positively to organizational commitment and employees' satisfaction.