The Effect of Transformational Leadership on Organizational Learning and Innovation During Covid-19

Purpose – The paper aims to identify the effect of transformational leadership on organizational learning and innovation during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study focused on the way for managing organizational innovation as well as learning by transformational leadership. The understanding of employee performance under transformational leadership during Covid-19 is also one of the objectives of this paper. Design/Method/Approach – The research was done by adopting descriptive research design. The research was done by collecting and analysing quantitative information. Survey method was used for data collection and statistical methods were used for data analysis. As the research was done by collecting and analysing quantitative data deductive research approaches considered suitable for the study. Results – The study found that free decision-making of employees has a strong positive relationship with job satisfaction. The research finding is a statically significant relationship between the work performance of employees and innovative steps taken by the employees in the workplace. However, the relationship between the leader's openness towards employee suggestions and job satisfaction of employees was not found in the study. The result of statistical analysis is suggesting that innovation and organisational learning are highly influenced by transformational leadership. Discussion – Transformational leadership makes employees get more engaged with the workplace. Workplace engagement results in innovation and innovation come from organisational learning. The study shows that implementing innovation in the workplace requires ideas regarding knowledge sharing inside an organisation. During that time that major issue was dealing with limited workforce to keep an organisation operational.

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