 Transformational leadership and R&D workers' multiple commitments: Do justice and span of control matter?Lale Gumusluoglu, Zahide Karakitapoğlu-Aygün and Giles Hirst Journal of Business Research, 2013, vol. 66, issue 11, 2269-2278 Abstract: This study examines how transformational leaders influence research and development (R&D) workers' commitment to their organizations and leaders. The study investigates the mediating role of organizational justice (i.e., procedural and interactional) based on social exchange theory and the moderating role of span of control in this relationship. In a sample of 445 Turkish R&D personnel, the study finds that transformational leadership significantly influences followers' organizational commitment partially through procedural justice and their supervisory commitment partially through interactional justice. Second, the findings reveal that transformational leaders boost perceptions of procedural justice and organizational commitment when the span of control is relatively narrow. Interestingly, when the span of control is large, transformational leadership has significant positive effects on supervisory commitment, but no significant effects on organizational commitment among R&D workers. Keywords: Transformational leadership; Organizational commitment; Supervisory commitment; Organizational justice; Span of control; Social exchange (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:66:y:2013:i:11:p:2269-2278 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2012.02.039 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Business Research is currently edited by A. G. Woodside More articles in Journal of Business Research from Elsevier |
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