Jia-Sheng Lee
Associate Professor, Providence University, Taiwan.
Tai-Kun Yang
Providence University, Taiwan.The Effect of Transformational Leadership and
Personal Mastery on Organizational Learning and
Organizational Innovation Performance
Innovation is a key factor to the existence of an enterprise in such a
fierce competition market. The firm that is unable to innovate to win the
competition can just try to earn the small profit margin by lower the
operation cost with a “red sea” strategy. Most literatures regarding
organizational innovation have been about the influence of such factors
as market orientation, learning orientation, entrepreneurship,
organizational learning, transformational leadership, etc. The purpose
of this research is to investigate the influences of personal mastery as
well as transformational leadership on its organizational learning and
organizational innovation performance. After all, most the idea for
innovation comes from individual’s creativity and personal mastery.
We investigate the top 1000 Taiwanese companies issued by
Commonwealth Magazine of Taiwan in 2009 to precede an empirical
study. The linear structure equation model and AMOS 7.0 of software
for data analyses are used to verify the hypotheses. This research search
provides three outcomes. First, transformational leadership has positive
effect on organizational learning, and organizational innovation
performance. Second, personal mastery has positive effect on
organizational learning, and organizational innovation performance.
Third, organizational learning has positive effect on organizational
innovation performance. Hence, we conclude that the top management
of an enterprise needs to stimulate their employees’ personal mastery
spirit by improving his/her transformational leadership to build a
better organization learning atmosphere. Hopefully, it might raise its
organization innovation performance in the long run.