Abstract
The personal learning cloud is reshaping companies across industries despite the vast gap
in the locus of knowledge acquisition and locus of knowledge application. While
knowledge and best practices become moving targets, the modern-organizations have
swiftly moved to psychological safety culture that fosters growth, innovation and
individual learning. In context, transformational leadership fosters innovative behaviors
and learning abilities, successful organizational transformations and effective actions for
performance beyond expectations. Hence, the study aims is to examine the impact of
transformational leadership on individual learning behavior, under mediating conditions
of psychological safety and moderating influence of uncertainty avoidance. Using partial
least squares (PLS) based structural equation modeling (SEM) and survey of 350
telecom-employees, the results reveal that transformational leadership and individual
learning behavior relationship is partially mediated by psychological safety.
Alternatively, uncertainty avoidance reveals an insignificant role as a moderator. Our
findings generate managerial implications for advancing individual learning cultures and
guiding continuous improvements in diverse work settings. In line with the theoretical
base of “too much of a good thing (TMGT) effect”, our study highlights potential
avenues for future research to explore the dark side of psychological safety and its
counter-productive effect on workplace behaviors.
Umer Zaman , Maha Abbasi. (2020) Linking Transformational Leadership and Individual Learning Behavior: Role of Psychological Safety and Uncertainty Avoidance, Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences, Volume 14, Issue 1.
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