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The Relationships between Leadership, Gender, and Organizational Goals in a Volunteering Role

Broeksma, Maayke LU (2020) PSYP01 20191
Department of Psychology
Abstract (Swedish)
This paper aims to answer how well affective commitment and leadership efficacy can be predicted by leadership style and gender expression in a voluntary setting. It is expected that invitational leadership, transformational leadership and gender expression predict the two dependent variables. It is also expected that there is a difference within affective commitment and leadership efficacy by sex after controlling for gender expression. 60 participants from Swedish student organizations (34 female, 25 male, 1 genderqueer) between 18 and 27 years old filled out an online survey, which consisted of demographics and modified versions of measurements of invitational leadership, transformational leadership, gender expression, affective... (More)
This paper aims to answer how well affective commitment and leadership efficacy can be predicted by leadership style and gender expression in a voluntary setting. It is expected that invitational leadership, transformational leadership and gender expression predict the two dependent variables. It is also expected that there is a difference within affective commitment and leadership efficacy by sex after controlling for gender expression. 60 participants from Swedish student organizations (34 female, 25 male, 1 genderqueer) between 18 and 27 years old filled out an online survey, which consisted of demographics and modified versions of measurements of invitational leadership, transformational leadership, gender expression, affective commitment, and leadership efficacy, in that order. The results of this study reveal that affective commitment cannot be explained by the suggested model, but leadership efficacy can. There is no significant relationship between sex, affective commitment and leadership efficacy when controlled for gender expression. Furthermore, transformational leadership has significant positive correlations with the dependent variables and with invitational leadership. This is consistent with studies that have shown that there is a positive link between leadership style, leadership efficacy and organizational commitment. Based on the findings, organizations that have volunteers should focus on the application of transformational rather than invitational leadership because the latter seems to be not as valuable for the organization's goals as transformational leadership is. (Less)
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author
Broeksma, Maayke LU
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organization
course
PSYP01 20191
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
affective commitment, efficacy, gender, invitational leadership, transformational leadership, volunteerism
language
English
id
9004652
date added to LUP
2020-02-12 11:47:46
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2020-02-12 11:47:46
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  abstract     = {{This paper aims to answer how well affective commitment and leadership efficacy can be predicted by leadership style and gender expression in a voluntary setting. It is expected that invitational leadership, transformational leadership and gender expression predict the two dependent variables. It is also expected that there is a difference within affective commitment and leadership efficacy by sex after controlling for gender expression. 60 participants from Swedish student organizations (34 female, 25 male, 1 genderqueer) between 18 and 27 years old filled out an online survey, which consisted of demographics and modified versions of measurements of invitational leadership, transformational leadership, gender expression, affective commitment, and leadership efficacy, in that order. The results of this study reveal that affective commitment cannot be explained by the suggested model, but leadership efficacy can. There is no significant relationship between sex, affective commitment and leadership efficacy when controlled for gender expression. Furthermore, transformational leadership has significant positive correlations with the dependent variables and with invitational leadership. This is consistent with studies that have shown that there is a positive link between leadership style, leadership efficacy and organizational commitment. Based on the findings, organizations that have volunteers should focus on the application of transformational rather than invitational leadership because the latter seems to be not as valuable for the organization's goals as transformational leadership is.}},
  author       = {{Broeksma, Maayke}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The Relationships between Leadership, Gender, and Organizational Goals in a Volunteering Role}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}