THE EFFECT OF WORK ENVIRONTMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON MANAGER’S TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP STYLE WITHIN THE CHANGE OF COLLECTIVISM TO INDIVIDUALISM CULTURE

摘要

This study aims to explore the effect of work environment and organizational culture on manager’s transformational leadership style. It is suggested that the transformational leadership style is more important than the other styles. Recently, it is believed that transformational leadership have a broader effect on organization outcomes such as managerial performance, individual creativity, team knowledge Sharing, employee well-being and safety performance, R & D performance, proactive employee's career satisfaction, subordinate affective organizational commitment , suit diverse national and cultural contexts, and so on. Various antecedents are expected to have significant effect on transformational leadership style such as leader’s qualities (e.g., self-efficacy, values, traits, emotional intelligence); organizational features (e.g., organization fairness); and the leader’s colleagues’ characteristics (e.g., follower’s initial developmental level), birocratization, centralization, pro-social motivation, professionalization, work environment and organizational culture. However, scholars argue that work environment and organizational culture have more significant effects on transformational leadership. Different collectivism and Individualism culture may have a different phenomenon on culture. Accordingly, it plausible to investigate the contribution of work environment and organizational culture on transformational leadership within the change of collectivism to Individualism culture. udKeywords: Work Environment, Organizational Culture, Manager, Transformational Leadership Style, Collectivism-Individualism Culture