Role of Transformational Leadership in Creating a Healthy Work Environment in Business Setting

Abstract

The main objective of the existing study was to extend the work environmental research to the domain of transformational leadership style from a sweeping review of relevant literature. In this line, creating a healthy work environment is crucial to make optimal contribution of satisfied employees, positive outcomes for individuals and organizations, improve lifestyle and employees wellbeing and create a great place to work. According to the path goal theory leader's style or behavior should be compatible with the work environment, to the successfully goals achievement. Although the literature on the healthy work environment is growing, the existence of research, particularly in relation to the appropriate leadership style has not been established. In doing this and to clarify the role of the prominent leadership style, we aim to demonstrate the important role of transformational leadership in creating the healthy work environment and its influences on quality of employees work conditions in business setting. Implementation of transformational leadership can affect not only the employees but also the organizations, business and society as a whole. The result of this literature review sheds light on the psychological processes by which showed whether and how transformational leadership is related to the healthy work places, from the perspective of the interaction between leaders and employees work environment. Since few guidelines are available for creating and sustaining the critical elements of a healthy work environment by leaders, we contribute to the literature by elaborating on the implications of our research findings for the development of leadership and its attributes in shaping the healthy work environment.

Keywords: Healthy Work Environment, Transformational Leadership, Business setting