Transformational leadership and employee performance amid COVID-19 crisis

Abstract Leadership is a journey that never stops and has power to evoke the minds of the people in the organisation. Outbreak of COVID-19 left individuals and organizations with many shocks due to unprecedented change. Transformational leadership style evokes the behaviour of employees towards better task. This study aims to establish the relationship between the transformational leadership and its impact on the employee performance in COVID-19 era. An empirical study was conducted by a survey, administered on employees of IT sector. Hypotheses were tested on a sample of 300. Statistical tools such as excel and SPSS were used for analysis. Multiple Regression was applied to study the influence of transformational leadership on employee performance. The results showed there is a significant relationship between transformational leadership and employee performance and the predictive variable traits of transformational leadership contributed significantly.