Public Management
Mohammad Doostar; Yaghoob Mombeini; Mahshid Goodarzi
Volume 4, Issue 3 , July 2016, , Pages 85-104
Abstract
Transformational leaders need a high degree of political intelligence in order to be able to compatible with the covert and overt resistance to change in a proper manner and facilitate the change. The influence and power of the leaders assist them towards generating a change in employees and the organization ...
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Transformational leaders need a high degree of political intelligence in order to be able to compatible with the covert and overt resistance to change in a proper manner and facilitate the change. The influence and power of the leaders assist them towards generating a change in employees and the organization and helps to achieve the goals of the organization. Therefore, the purpose of the current study is to investigate the political intelligence of the leaders in managing and directing the organizational changes. In the present article, the effect of a transformational leader on organizational changes, with the mediating role of political intelligence in governmental organization in Guilan Province has been studied. Therefore, firstly, the research hypothesis was written based on a review of the theoretical basis, and then the data was collected by a questionnaire. The research sample includes the governmental organizations in Guilan. From this sample, 64 governmental organizations were chosen randomly. The present article is an applied research and the method of research was descriptive measurement and the data was collected by field methods and for data analysis, structural equation modeling and partial least squares (PLS) algorithm was used. The results indicated that transformational leadership with the mediating role of political intelligence affects the organizational changes. Increasing the perception of political change of the leaders, increases organizational success, decreases stress and improves foreign relationships.
