The effects of transformational leadership on organizational commitment and job satisfaction in Taiwan's information technology industry

The research model of the study herein has been developed to gain a better understanding of the predictability of organizational commitment and job satisfaction based on transformational leadership in Taiwan's IT industry. According to previous studies, survey questionnaires are including three major instruments: MLQ (Bass & Avoilo, 2000), TCM (Allen & Meyer, 1991), and JSS (Spector, 1985). The total of 224 employees who work at Taiwan's IT industry responded the survey. All participants were selected randomly at IT industries in Taiwan and completed the above three sets of self-reported questionnaires. Survey data was collected by SPSS 11.5. The statistical methods used include descriptive statistics, simple regression analysis, and correlation analysis. The statistical results from these measures were used to test the 16 hypotheses and determine whether Taiwan's IT industry performs the transformational leadership characteristics. The findings conformed to previous studies and supported all hypotheses in this study. Therefore, transformational leadership has significant effects on organizational commitment and job satisfaction in Taiwan's IT industry.