The psychological mechanisms of transformational leadership to followers' performance

This paper presents a theoretical framework of the psychological mechanisms of transformational leadership to followers’ performance in multi-level analysis. This research study generates propositions on the nature of the relationships between transformational leadership is associated with followers’ task performance and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) by three theoretical perspectives namely the motivational perspective, the social exchange perspective, and the social identity perspective. The effects of transformational leadership on followers’ work-related outcomes are mediated by intermediate variables such as self-efficacy, perceived supervisory support (PSS), and dependence. Implications for the theory and practice of transformational leadership are discussed