Relationship Between Organizational Identification and Transformational Followers within Academic and Professional Settings

Abstract

Although studies suggest that transformational leaders have a profound impact on followers (Dvir, Eden, Avolio & Shamir, 2002), followers who exhibit transformational characteristics and their effect on other followers remain unexplored. The effect that followers have on each other can influence job/school satisfaction, self-efficacy, self-esteem, and organizational identification, as has been shown with transformational leaders and followers (Shamir, House, & Arthur, 1993; Bartram & Casimir, 2006). Using Transformational Leadership Theory (Bass, 1985; Burns, 1978), this study looks at the relationships between transformational leadership, self-esteem, self-efficacy, and organizational identification.