THE EFFECTS OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE
Keywords:
Transformational Leadership, Organization, Performance, EmployeeAbstract
This article is an academic article which have a purpose to present transformational leadership that correlation with the performance of employees in the organization. Among the challenging changing and rapid change of organizational context, the organization must adapt and manage to achieve goals, sustainable survive and growth. In almost every organizational structure, the necessary is a leader, and the indispensable is transformational leadership who is considered very important that affects the employee performance and the organization performance in long term. There is empirical study confirming that Transformational leadership can deliver better results than conventional leadership. Transformational leadership influences employee behavior in generating good performance both in terms of job functions and contexts beyond the primary job to have superior performance and more accomplishments than expected. When each individual has a good performance, It will affect the performance of the team, and the performance of the organization as a whole. Transformational leadership is a behavioral model, a creator inspires employees to perform at their best as superior outcome. To enhance Intellectually stimulating ideas for different ways of working, come up with new solutions to solve problems, creative innovation and enhance new challenges for employees to work for the benefit of a group or organization and taking into account the differences of individual employees. The author suggests that application the concept of transformational leadership to apply more to the public administration in Thailand. This will be beneficial to both human resource management and organization administration.
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