Transformational Leadership Style and Its Relationship with Organisational Performance in Nigerian Work Context: A Review

Abstract

Transformational Leadership style has been a dominant construct in leadership research today and in fact has lead to a paradigm shift in leadership thinking. However, very little has been done on the relationship between transformational leadership style and organizational performance in Nigerian work context, making this the main motivator for this study. This paper relied on secondary data as its major source of information; this is to say that the primary method of study was an extensive review of available literature for description and analysis of the subject matter. The paper concluded that transformational leadership style has a significant positive relationship with organisational performance in Nigerian work context and therefore recommended that organizations who want to improve or ensure optimal organisational performance must adopt leadership style that fits the settings in which the followers and leadership interact and also training to enhance this leadership style (transformational) should be encouraged in Nigerian work context.