The linkages among adaptive leadership, learing organization and organizatinal performance

Abstract

In the last years, the plight of the Vietnam economy has forced a lot of companies to bankrupt. Enterprises are seeking ways to overcome this dark cloud to survive and develop on the market, this made them aware of the importance of learning capabilities and role of leader in organization which are considered as one of the efficient ways to improve business’s performance outcome. Hence, this research aims to explore whether there is the chain impact from adaptive leadership and learning organization to organizational performance in chemical companies in a Vietnam business environment or not. The collected data was analyzed and evaluated by structural equation modeling (SEM) method through Analysis of Moment Structures (AMOS software) at the sample size of 29 chemical companies with 128 responses returned from middle level managers. This study finds out the effects of adaptive leadership on learning organization and learning organization has positive impact on a part of organizational performance. In addition, learning organization plays mediating variable role in this correlation. Nonetheless, this research has its limitations due to only focusing on chemical manufacturing field. Hence, it could not represent a general characteristic for other areas. The correlation among adaptive leadership, learning organization and perceptual performance outcome are interesting because the result is a vindication of the important of applying adaptive leadership as well as building learning organization will contribute how to success of organization.