Volume 16, Issue 52 (7-2013)                   jha 2013, 16(52): 37-50 | Back to browse issues page

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1- University of isfahan
2- University of Tehran , kazempourmaryam26@gmail.com
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  Introduction: studies show that organizations using transformational leadership, achieve high levels of growth and development. For this reason, in recent decades, transformational leadership has become an unavoidable necessity, because through transformational leadership organizations can improve their competitive advantage such as organizational learning. Therefore, the main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational learning at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences.

  Methods: Research method was descriptive-correlative. To collect data, 117 employees at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences were surveyed. Research instruments were to questionnaires: 1) Bass and Avalio’s transformational leadership, and 2) Neif’s organizational learning. Reliability coefficients were.87 and .88 respectively, using Chronbach’s formula. The collected data were analyzed using one- sample t-test, and Pearson correlation.

  Results: Findings showed that there are a positive and significant relationship between transformational leadership and its components (Idealized Influence, Inspirational Motivation, Intellectual Stimulation, and Individualized Consideration) with organizational learning.T test results showed that transformational leadership and organizational learning are in a rather good status.

  Conclusion: according to the findings, it can be suggested that the existence of transformational leadership can result in the improvement of organizational learning.

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Received: 2013/01/1 | Accepted: 2013/11/19 | Published: 2013/11/19

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