Author: Wael Zaraket
Leadership and change management is a topic that has not been academically examined in Lebanon. Identifying the relationship between leadership styles and change management is essential for organizations' effectiveness before they undertake present-day changes. This paper investigates the effect of transactional and transformational leadership styles based on change management implementation in Lebanon. Existing literature related to the subject was studied and a deductive research approach was adopted. Here, data was gathered through self-administrated questionnaires distributed to the Lebanese governmental sector and subcontractors’ companies with the Lebanese government. The questionnaires have been utilized to elicit responses from 178 employees out of 250 taken as a sample size. The results of this research show that transformational and transactional leadership styles share a positive relationship with change management. Also, the findings infer similar results to those original studies in other Western contexts. Hence, Western models of organizational behavior are applicable to Lebanese organizational idiosyncrasies. Accordingly, the organization should examine transactional and transformational leadership as one of the focal factors in executing change management process. Also, they should encourage managers to further understand the significance of the relationship between leadership style and the holistic innovative change process. The implications of the findings for practice were highlighted.
Keywords: Transactional leadership, transformational leadership, change management.
Wael Zaraket, PhD. Business Administration, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business and Economics, American University of Science and Technology, Beirut, Lebanon. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
