Organizational culture and transformation leadership: case study of environmental engineering consultant company in Thailand.

Abstract

Organizational culture and transformational leadership are significant for leaders to understand how the power of their leadership has effects on organizational culture in organizations. Those instruments are essential to develop human resources in sustainable growth. The purpose of this research is to understand the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational culture in the small organization. The case study focused on environmental engineering consultant company in Thailand. This paper is designed by using the qualitative approach. The researcher used self-assessments and conducted in-depth interviews with the leader and current employees. According to Bass' transformational leadership theory and Groysberg, Lee, Price and Chung’s integrated culture framework, the positive results are that there is transformational leadership in this small organization and leader can build trust through his own style of leadership. Employees reflect themselves by giving their expressions on cultural sentiments and organizational culture as “Enjoyment” and “Caring”. However, there are some hidden issues about organizational culture.