Harmonizing dependency and independence The ambidextrous effects of transformational leadership and mediating role of trust and perceived control

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ByungJik Kim
MyungHo Chung

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Transformational leadership produces ambidextrous effects: followers' dependence on leaders and independent competence. These two effects represent affective and cognitive aspects of psychological process in the functioning of transformational leadership. This study examined the mediating role of trust and perceived control as the link between transformational leadership and organizational commitment. With analysis of data from 1,136 employees using structural equation modeling(SEM), we tested the hypothetical model explaining the structural relationships among the variables and interpreted the fitness and robustness of the suggested model. The results showed that (1) trust partially mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational commitment, and (2) the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational commitment was also partially mediated by perceived control. The results suggest that transformational leaders need to harmonize both dependency and independence of followers. The implications and the directions for future studies were also discussed.

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Kim, B., & Chung, M. (2012). Harmonizing dependency and independence: The ambidextrous effects of transformational leadership and mediating role of trust and perceived control. Korean Journal of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 25(2), 453–476. https://doi.org/10.24230/kjiop.v25i2.453-476
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