Title: The Relationships between Leadership, Gender, and Organizational Goals in a Volunteering Role
Abstract: This paper aims to answer how well affective commitment and leadership efficacy can be predicted by leadership style and gender expression in a voluntary setting. It is expected that invitational leadership, transformational leadership and gender expression predict the two dependent variables. It is also expected that there is a difference within affective commitment and leadership efficacy by sex after controlling for gender expression. 60 participants from Swedish student organizations (34 female, 25 male, 1 genderqueer) between 18 and 27 years old filled out an online survey, which consisted of demographics and modified versions of measurements of invitational leadership, transformational leadership, gender expression, affective commitment, and leadership efficacy, in that order. The results of this study reveal that affective commitment cannot be explained by the suggested model, but leadership efficacy can. There is no significant relationship between sex, affective commitment and leadership efficacy when controlled for gender expression. Furthermore, transformational leadership has significant positive correlations with the dependent variables and with invitational leadership. This is consistent with studies that have shown that there is a positive link between leadership style, leadership efficacy and organizational commitment. Based on the findings, organizations that have volunteers should focus on the application of transformational rather than invitational leadership because the latter seems to be not as valuable for the organization's goals as transformational leadership is. (Less)
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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