INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION IN A PRIVATE UNIVERSITY

Learning organizations play a role in preparing a knowledge-based university to advance in the growing competition between universities, primarily in terms of facing rapid changes. Learning organizations empower an organization to create an open-minded work culture, to improve its members� creative thinking, to utilize their knowledge and to encourage themselves in the fact that they can create solutions for any obstacles that they encounter in the organization itself. The study aims to test the effect of transformational leadership style, the organizational climate and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) on learning organization. The population in the study consisted of full-time lecturers in a number of private universities in the Jakarta and West Java areas with the final sample being 200 permanent lecturers gathered from the questionnaire distribution. An SEM tool was used in the data analysis. The results of the study show that positive transformational leadership style has significant positive effect on the learning organization either through OCB or simultaneously. On the other hand, organizational climate has a more significant effect through OCB on learning organization. The current study thus points out that a more active transformational leadership style along with the OCB that is generated by the lecturers, and the organizational climate in the universities through OCB, is able to increase the learning organization. However, organizational climate has no effect concerning growing learning organization in private universities. In order to grow the learning organization in private universities, it is expected that the universities will involve the lecturers in all activities. Furthermore, the universities are also expected to set clear policies and structures and to support the lecturers to allow them to develop their knowledge and skills. The purpose of this support is to improve the lecturers� work performance and to give appreciation to the lecturers who will be able to excel at their competencies.

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