The Influence of Transformational Leadership, Knowledge Management and Innovation on Commercial Banks’ Performance

Main Article Content

ชารวี บุตรบำรุง

Abstract

The main purposes of this research were to 1) study the inflflfflluence of transformational leadership,
knowledge management and innovation on commercial banks’ performance, and 2) analyze the
level of transformational leadership, knowledge management, innovation and commercial banks’ performance.
Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used in this study. The quantitative study
was conducted by using questionnaire to collect data from 334 branches’ staffs of the commercial. The
qualitative study was used in-depth interviews to obtain information from 10 bank branch managers.
The data were analysed through Structural Equation Model, SEM) and variable relationship analysis.
The results found that; the transformational leadership, knowledge management and innovation
were high level factors with averages of 4.06, 4.09 and 3.87 respectively. The SEM indicated that the
transformational leadership had positively direct effect to knowledge management and innovation; at
the inflfflluence coefffiificients equal 0.83 and 0.79 respectively. In term of knowledge management and innovation
had positively direct effect to performance scale at the influence coeffiffiicients equal 0.70 and
0.65 respectively, as statistically signififfiicant at 0.05. In contrast, The transformational leadership had no
inflfflluence to work performance factor. In addition, The constructural model corresponded with the empirical
data at acceptable level. (GFI = 0.97, AGFI =0.93, Chi-Square = 75.17, degree of freedom = 46,
RMSEA = 0.044)

Article Details

Section
Research Articles

References

ธนาคารแห่งประเทศไทย. (2555). แผนพัฒนาระบบสถาบันการเงินระยะที่ 2 (พ.ศ.2553 – 2557). ข่าวธนาคารแห่ง
ประเทศไทย. สำนักสื่อสารสัมพันธ์. ค้นเมื่อ 3 มกราคม 2555,
จาก วิจารณ์ พานิช. (2546). การจัดการความรู้ SECI Model ฉบับพิสดาร. ค้นเมื่อ 7 กุมภาพันธ์2555,
จาก http//www.kmi.trf.or.th/Exciment/Experence/SECI_Model_Vichan.pdf.
Alavi, M., & Leidner, D. E. (1999). Knowledge management systems: Issues, challenges, and benefits.
Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 1(7), 1-37.
Alan, B. & Robert, B.G., (1995). Analyzing qualitative data. London: Utledg.
Alonio, F., Carly, M., & Bayu, H. (2010). Environmental management accounting and innovation
: An exploratory analysis, Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, 23(7), 920-948.
Amabile, T. M., Schatzel, E. A., Moneta, G. B., & Kramer, S.K. (2004). Leaders behaviors and the
work environment for creativity: Perceived leaders support. The Leadership Quarterly,
15(1), 5-32.
Bass, B. M. (1998). Transformational leadership industrial, military and educational impact. London:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Bass, B. M., & Avolio, B. J. (2004). Multifactor leadership questionnaire: Manual and sampler set
(3rd ed.). Mind Garden.
Davenport, T. H. & Prusak, L. (1998). How organizations manage what they know. Boston: Harvard
Business School Press.
Feinberg, B. J., Ostroff, & Burke, W. W. (2005). The role of within-group agreement in understanding
transformational leadership, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology,
78(3), 471-488.
Kaplan, R. S., & Norton, D. P. (1996). Using the balanced scorecard as a strategic management
system. Harvard Business Review, 74(1), 75-85.
Kelly, M. I. (2003). Academic advisers as transformational leaders. The Mentor. Retrieved December
3, 2006, from http://www.psu.Edu/dus/mentor/030101 k.htm
Lopez, Peon & Ordas, (2005). Organizational learning as a determining factor in business
performance. The Learning Organization, 12(3), 227-245.
Maritz D. (2000). South African leaders’ emergence towards transformational leadership. Management
Today, 16 (6), 16-18.
Michael, E. P. (1985). Competitive advantage: Creating and sustaining superior performance.
Free Press. New York.
Nonaka, I. & Takeuchi, H. (1995). The Knowledge-creating company: How Japaness companies
create the dynamics of innovation? New York: Oxford University Press.
Osborne, S. & Brown, K. (2005). Managing change and innovation in public service organisations.
Routledge, London.
Pedler, M., Burgoyne, J. & Boydell, T. (1997), The learning company, McGraw-Hill Publishing
Company, London. Improvements,” Journal of Small Business Management ,44(2), 268–84.
Popper, M., & Druyan, N. (2001). Cultural phototypes? Or leaders behaviors? A study on workers
perceptions of leadership in an electronics industry, Journal of Managerial Psychology,
16 (7/8), 549-558.
Sarros, J. C., & Santora, J.C. (2001). The transformational – transactional leadership model in practice.
Leadership & Organisational Development Journal, 22 (8), 383-309.
Schumpeter, J. A. (1961). Business cycles: A theoretical, historical and statistical analysis of the
capitalist process. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Senge, P. M. (1990a). The ffifiifth fidiscipline: The art and practice of the learning organization. London:
Random House Business Books.
Spreitzer, G. M., Perttula, K. H., & Xin, K. (2005). Traditionality matters: An examination of the
effectiveness of transformational leadership in the United States and Taiwan. Journal of
Organizational Behavior, 26(3), 205-227.
Stone, A. G., Russell, R. F., & Patterson, K. (2003). Transformational versus servant
leadership – a difference in leader focus. Retrieved August 3, 2006, from
http://www.regent.edu/acad/cls/2003servantleadershiproundtable/stone.pdf
Wang, C. L., Hult, G. T. M., Ketchen, D. J., Jr. & Ahmed, P. K. (2009). Knowledgemanagement
orientation, market orientation, And fiffiirm performance: an integration and empirical
examination. Journal of Strategic Marketing, 17(2), 147-170.
Yukl, G. A. (1998). Leadership in organization (4rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice – Hall.