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Title
THE RELATIOSHIP BETWWEN TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND HUMAN CAPITAL
DEVLOPMENT: THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF KNOWLADGE MANAGMENT AND ORGANIZATIOANL
CULTURE
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Mohamed Al Waqfi
Defense Date
03 November 2016
Abstract
Human capital development is one of the most important enablers for any organisation to achieving a
sustainable competitive advantage. Thus, organisations are interested in adopting various initiatives and
mechanisms to support the development of human capital, such as transformational leadership style,
knowledge management practices and building organisational culture. This study intends to examine
the mediating effect of knowledge management and organisational culture on the relationships between
transformational leadership and human capital development in the Abu Dhabi emirate. This study used
a structured questionnaire to collect data from a large sample of employees drawn from government
and semi-government entities in the Abu Dhabi Emirate. The questionnaire consists of two parts. The
inquiries of the first part based on Bass and Avolio’s (1995) MLQ Form 5x-Short to measure and identify
the leadership factors incorporated in their model. The inquiries of the second part investigated the
various aspects of knowledge management and organisational culture, which might have significant
effects on human capital development in an organisation. The human capital development as perceived by
respondents is also measured using a separate scale. The quantitative analysis of the questionnaire data
was conducted to examine the factor structure of the variables measured, whereas the structural equation
model (SEM) estimation tested the hypotheses of the study. The generated results of this study revealed
that transformational leadership as perceived by respondents has positive effects on the human capital
development of subordinates. The findings also indicated knowledge management and organisational
culture partially mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and the human capital
development. The implications of the study findings on theory, practices, and policymaking are providing
a roadmap to organisations to put much concern on developing leadership and boosting human capital
development in the UAE and similar contexts.
Dissertation
MONA MAJED MOHAMED AL MANSOORI
Department of Business Administration
College of Business and Economics