TY  - JOUR
AB  - While leading through goals is usually associated with a task-oriented leadership style, the present work links goal setting to transformational leadership. A longitudinal field study was conducted to investigate the influence of transformational leadership on followers’ job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and proactive behavior via goal attributes. Findings indicate that transformational leaders influence the extent to which followers evaluate organizational goals as important and perceive them as attainable. Multiple mediation analysis revealed that these goal attributes transmit the effect of transformational leadership on followers’ job attitudes and proactive behavior. However, goal importance and goal attainability seem to be of differential importance for the different outcomes.
DA  - 2018
DO  - 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02338
KW  - leadership
LA  - eng
PY  - 2018
SN  - 1664-1078
T2  - Frontiers in Psychology
TI  - The path is the goal: How transformational leaders enhance followers’ job attitudes and proactive behavior
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29320819
Y2  - 2024-11-21T15:13:59
ER  -