Research result
Descriptive statistics of each research variable
The average, standard deviation and correlation matrix results of each study variable are shown in Table 4.19. The results show that transformational leadership and transactional leadership are significantly correlated with organizational culture and organizational learning.
Table 4.19 Means, standard deviations and correlations for research variables
|
Variable |
M |
SD |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
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1. Nature of company |
2.44 |
1.12 |
- |
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2. Company scale |
1.53 |
0.81 |
-0.13* |
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3. Company’s development stage |
2.44 |
0.84 |
-0.35** |
0.05 |
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4. Transformational leadership |
3.30 |
0.94 |
-0.22** |
0.03 |
0.28** |
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5. Transactional leadership |
3.19 |
0.62 |
-0.07 |
0.22** |
0.05 |
0.72** |
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6. Organizational culture |
3.37 |
1.05 |
-0.35** |
0.03 |
0.48** |
0.85** |
0.63** |
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7. Organizational learning |
3.42 |
0.83 |
-0.33** |
0.07 |
0.44** |
0.86** |
0.68** |
0.83** |
- ** p < 0.01.
- * p< 0.05.
The mediating effect of organizational culture between leadership and organizational learning
The result of hierarchical regression analysis for transformational leadership (Table 4.20) is as follows. First, transformational leadership plays a significant role in promoting organizational learning (М2), which verifies Hypothesis 18. Second, when both transformational leadership and organizational culture were put into the regression equation (М3), the role of transformational leadership changed from very significant (0.79,/ < 0.01) to insignificant (-0.04, / > 0.05), while organizational culture had a significant effect on organizational learning (0.83, p < 0.01). This shows that organizational culture plays a full mediating role between transformational leadership and organizational learning, which supports Hypothesis 20. For the transactional leadership, the results show that there was significant correlation between transactional leadership and organizational leaming(M5), which verifies Hypothesis 19. However, when both transactional leadership and organizational culture were put into the regression equation (M6), the role of transactional leadership changed from significant (0.68,/? < 0.01) to insignificant (0.01,/ > 0.05), while organizational culture had a significant effect on organizational learning (0.78,/ < 0.01). This also shows that organizational culture plays a full mediating role between transactional leadership and organizational learning, which supports Hypothesis 21.
