| Knowledge is vital to the overall success and competitive advantage of an organization. Many factors within an organization have been construed as necessary in the organizational knowledge management process. However, little research has centered on the role that various leadership styles have on knowledge management. Many researchers emphasize that leadership is an enabler of the knowledge management process, but do not have the empirical evidence to support such as generalization. Of the meager amount of evidence that does actually exist suggesting such a relationship, there tends to only be a focus on the broad construct of leadership as a whole, rather than the various types of leadership styles that actually do exist. Further, with the rise in technology in the workplace, does technology actually play a mediating role in this relationship between leadership and knowledge management? Therefore, the focus of this research was to examine the relationship between transformational and transactional leadership, as characterized by Bass (1985), and the organizational knowledge management process with technology acceptance as a mediating variable. Overall results indicated that transformational leadership was positively correlated to knowledge management processes with technology acceptance acting, to some degree, as a mediator in that relationship. Transactional leadership, on the other hand, was not found to be a predictor of knowledge management processes. |
