Enhancing Public Organizational Effectiveness through Transformational Leadership and Learning Organization: A Conceptual Framework

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the specific link between transformational leadership, the learning organization, and organizational  effectiveness, especially in the public organization. As a conceptual paper, the intention is to review a range of the literature on the effect of the transformational characteristics of leadership and the learning organization culture on organizational effectiveness in order to form a conceptual framework regarding the above variables. As such we posit that idealized influence, inspiration motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration could have a significant association with the learning organization and a positive link with organizational effectiveness. In the meantime, learning organization cultures: create system, inquiry and dialogue, team learning, embedded systems, empowerment, strategic leadership, and system connection could also have a significant effect on organizational effectiveness. The contribution of the paper is in the enhancement of organizational effectiveness by developing the proposed conceptual framework, which can be used as a guideline for managing leadership style and learning organization culture in the public organization in the future.