Transformational leadership and social responsibility in coffee women's associations in southern Colombia

Abstract

The present study established the relationship between transformational leadership and social responsibility practices in organizations of women, producers of specialty coffees in southern Colombia. Two questionnaires were applied to measure the variables using Likert scales and the structural equations model was used to validate the hypothesis with SPSS-AMOS software. A significant and positive relationship was determined between transformational leadership practices and the perception of social responsibility, especially in the dimensions of idealized influence (conduct and attribution) and intellectual stimulation of transformational leadership, and the dimensions of labor issues and social responsibility society. These findings are consistent with current literature, and they complement aspects not addressed as the relationship between the variables studied in the framework of gender in non-conventional organizations.