Conceptual Model And Effectiveness Mechanism Of Organizational Change Leadership

With the globalization of the world economy and the deepening of Chinese economic restructuring, more and more corporations need to develop better and faster through organizational change. Leadership is so important in the process of organizational change, or even has a direct impact on the success of the change. Therefore, organizational change leadership attracts attentions of many researchers.Studies about change leadership before most remain at individual level, such as the focusing on the leadership style. Scholars concerning the organizational level of leadership made limited progress, and few pay attention to the effectiveness mechanism of change leadership through organizational change process. This paper proposed a concept of change leadership at the organizational level. It's believed that change leadership was organizational competence which could lead and drive the change process. It had different effects on the organizational performance at the different change stages.The present studies developed the construct of change leadership and validated its impact on organizational performance with the perspective of Adaptation-Selection-Development (ASD) Growth Model. The studies incluled the following 3 sections:Study 1 developed the conceptual construct of change leadership. The researcher conducted depth interviewing to seventeen leaders based on the literature reviewing. Multiple-dimension construct of change leadership were extracted by the analysis of grounded theory method.Study 2 validated the construct of change leadership in study 1 by questionnaire. According to the data, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis results showed that the change leadership was a multiple-dimension construct which including vision driven, creation and breakthrough, structural innovation and culture building. This construct was cross-validated through situational judgement test, laying the foundation for the subsequent study of the relationship and mechanism.Study 3 analyzed the relationship of change leadership and organizational performance by collecting data in multi-aspect and integrating data to organizational level. The results of multivariate analysis of variance and multiple regression analysis validated the moderating effect of the stage of organizational change on the relationship between change leadership and organizational performance. The mediating effect of subordinates' perceived leadership between change leadership and organizational performance was also validated. The effectiveness mechanism of change leadership at organization level was validated and put forward proposals for organizational change and management practice.This paper proposed and validated the four dimension construct of change leadership based on the ASD growth model. Change leadership was found to have different effectiveness at different change stages. The mediating effect of subordinate's perceived leadership between change leadership and organazational performance was valided from the aspect of implicit leadership theory.