Transformational Leadership Style and Organizational Justice of Multinational Companies in Rivers State, Nigeria.
Keywords:
Transformational leadership, organizational justice, distributive justice, procedural justice, interactional justice, multinational companies.Abstract
Transformational leadership has been identified as pivotal and has increasingly been recognized as a critical determinant in shaping perceptions of fairness and enhancing organizational justice within multinational companies (MNCs). The relationship between transformational leadership and organizational justice in the unique socio-cultural context of Rivers State, Nigeria, where MNCs face challenges linked to leadership, equity, and fairness in organizational processes, has been given attention. This paper explores the impact of transformational leadership on organizational justice in these companies, focusing on how leadership fosters distributive, procedural, and interactional justice. The study aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of how MNCs can leverage transformational leadership to promote and foster fairness, trust, confidence, employee empowerment, and employee satisfaction by examining the dimensions of organizational justice principles of distributive, procedural, and interactional justice. These findings suggest that transformational leadership can effectively address justice-related issues and enhance MNCs’ employee morale, engagement, and organizational performance.
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