Mudança organizacional: os efeitos dos estilos de liderança no comportamento dos trabalhadores

Abstract

The aim of this research is to reflect on the themes leadership styles and organizational change. Specifically, this study seeks to identify how leadership styles may influence employees’ behaviors of acceptance or resistance to organizational change. As result, we propose some hypotheses indicating new possibilities to future research. We present a literature review on the major theoretical perspectives about organizational change, focusing on individual reactions to change and on the leadership styles transactional and transformational styles. Then, the literature review identifies possible relationships between the leadership styles and individual reactions to organizational change, which can be featured as cooperative or resistant. The literature presents some indications that transformational leaders can manage their followers to a positive behavior, cooperating with the proposed changes, while transactional leaders would encourage their follower to somehow present a resistance behavior. Some implications for future research are presented.