TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND AGENCY WORKERS' ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT: THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE AND JOB CHARACTERISTICS.

In this study we examined if perceptions of organizational justice and job characteristics mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and the organizational commitment of agency workers in a manufacturing plant in China. Questionnaires were used to evaluate perceived organizational justice, perceived job characteristics, exposure to transformational leadership, and organizational commitment in 300 agency workers. The results support a structural model whereby transformational leadership is both directly and indirectly associated with the organizational commitment of agency workers, through perceived organizational justice and job characteristics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]