Transformational Leadership and Job Performance: The Case of SMEs in Taiwan

In this study, we examined the link between transformational leadership, employee competency, organizational commitment, and job performance. We proposed a mediated moderation model linking transformational leadership to job performance, which includes organizational commitment as an intermediary variable and employee competency as a contextual moderator. The relationship between transformational leadership and job performance occurs through organizational commitment only when employee competency was high, but not when employee competency was low. Organizational commitment fully mediated the relationship of the interaction between transformational leadership with employee competency and job performance. Finally, a discussion and suggestions relevant to the empirical results of this study are proposed.