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UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY International School of Business Thai Van Trung Hieu THE LINKAGES AMONG ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP, LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE MASTER OF BUSINESS (Honours) Ho Chi Minh City – 2014 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY International School of Business Thai Van Trung Hieu THE LINKAGES AMONG ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP, LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE ID: 21110006 MASTER OF BUSINESS (Honours) SUPERVISOR: Dr Nguyen Huu Lam Ho Chi Minh City – 2014 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ACKNOWLEDGE I gratefully acknowledge the constructive comments provided by Dr Nguyen Huu Lam His ideas and suggestions play an important role for research orientation I would like to thank the following people for their efforts and support, who gave me much valuable advice in the early stages of this work: Mrs Nhung (Joton Paint Company), Mr Son (Cai Lan Oil Company), Mrs Lan (Anh Duy International Company), Ms Lan (MBA - HCMC University of Technology), and a lot of friends of friends who attended my survey, without whose helped this work would never have been possible In addition, I want to thank you for all of friends at AMIGOS Company, who stood in the breach when I concentrated on research Last but not least, my sincere thanks owe to my family who gave me good conditions to complete this work LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com PLAGIARISM STATEMENTS I hereby declare that this thesis represents my own work and any sign of plagiarism would significantly drive rejection results by International School of Business (ISB belong to University of Economic, HCMC) I fully understand the statement above LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ABSTRACT In the last years, the plight of the Vietnam economy has forced a lot of companies to bankrupt Enterprises are seeking ways to overcome this dark cloud to survive and develop on the market, this made them aware of the importance of learning capabilities and role of leader in organization which are considered as one of the efficient ways to improve business’s performance outcome Hence, this research aims to explore whether there is the chain impact from adaptive leadership and learning organization to organizational performance in chemical companies in a Vietnam business environment or not The collected data was analyzed and evaluated by structural equation modeling (SEM) method through Analysis of Moment Structures (AMOS software) at the sample size of 29 chemical companies with 128 responses returned from middle level managers This study finds out the effects of adaptive leadership on learning organization and learning organization has positive impact on a part of organizational performance In addition, learning organization plays mediating variable role in this correlation Nonetheless, this research has its limitations due to only focusing on chemical manufacturing field Hence, it could not represent a general characteristic for other areas The correlation among adaptive leadership, learning organization and perceptual performance outcome are interesting because the result is a vindication of the important of applying adaptive leadership as well as building learning organization will contribute how to success of organization Therefore, firms can use this correlation or knowledge from it to improve their adaptability to continuously compete in turbulent market LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGE PLAGIARISM STATEMENTS ABSTRACT CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Research background 1.2 Research questions 1.3 Research objectives 1.4 Research methodology and research scope 1.5 Research contribution 1.6 Research structure CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Learning organization (LO) 2.2 Adaptive leadership (AL) 11 2.3 Organizational performance (OP) 16 2.4 Relationship among AL, LO and OP 17 CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 22 3.1 Research design 22 3.1.1 Research method 22 3.1.2 Research procedure 23 3.2 Measurement scales 25 3.2.1 Learning organization 26 3.2.2 Adaptive leadership 26 3.2.3 Organizational performance 27 3.3 Pilot research 30 3.3.1 Carry out reliability analysis for AL scale 31 3.3.2 Analyze reliability for LO scale 33 3.3.3 Conduct reliability analysis for OP scale 34 3.4 Introduce main research 36 3.4.1 Sample size 36 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com 3.4.2 Descriptive data 37 CHAPTER 4: RESEARCH RESULTS 40 4.1 Evaluate the measurement by CFA 40 4.1.1 CFA result for Adaptive leadership 42 4.1.2 CFA result for Learning organization 44 4.1.3 CFA result for Perceptual performance outcome 45 4.1.4 The saturated model 46 4.1.5 The theoretical model 47 4.1.6 The competitive model 49 4.1.7 Bootstrap 51 4.2 Hypothesis testing 52 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS, IMPLICATIONS AND LIMITATIONS 54 5.1 Findings 54 5.2 Implications of research 56 5.3 Limitations and directions for further research 57 REFERENCES 61 APPENDICES LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF TABLES Table 3.1 Measurement scale 27 Table 3.2 Descriptive data 37 Table 4.1 Results for discriminant validity of each variable 47 Table 4.2 Relationship between each concept in theoretical model (standardized) 49 Table 4.3 Relationship between each concept in competitive model (standardized) 51 Table 4.4 Estimated result by bootstrap at N = 200 51 Table 4.5 Results of hypotheses 52 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF FIGURES Figure 2.1 Learning loops Figure 2.2 Research model 21 Figure 3.1 Research procedure 24 Figure 3.2 Research model revised 35 Figure 4.1 CFA result for adaptive leadership 43 Figure 4.2 CFA result for learning organization 44 Figure 4.3 CFA result for perceptual performance outcome 43 Figure 4.4 SEM analysis results for saturated model 46 Figure 4.5 SEM analysis results for theoretical model 48 Figure 4.6 SEM analysis results for competitive model 50 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS The following table describes the significant of various abbreviations used throughout the thesis Abbreviation LO Meaning Learning organization OL Organizational learning AL Adaptive leadership OP Organizational performance PPO Perceptual performance outcome DLOQ Dimension Learning Organization Questionnaire SEM Structural equation modeling EFA Exploratory factor analysis CFA Confirmatory factor analysis LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ... 26 3 .2. 2 Adaptive leadership 26 3 .2. 3 Organizational performance 27 3. 3 Pilot research 30 3. 3.1 Carry out reliability analysis for AL scale 31 3. 3 .2. .. METHODOLOGY 22 3. 1 Research design 22 3. 1.1 Research method 22 3. 1 .2 Research procedure 23 3 .2 Measurement scales 25 3 .2. 1 Learning organization... 33 3. 3 .3 Conduct reliability analysis for OP scale 34 3. 4 Introduce main research 36 3. 4.1 Sample size 36 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com