The Leadership: A Creative Item of the Organizational Culture; A Brief Focus on Banking System in Romania

The present research is positioned in the organizational culture area on the leadership perspective with a brief focus on banking system. Our purpose is to identify the essential features of the leaders and the defining elements of the participative leadership and the transformational leadership required for the implementation of changes. The study is challenging on the importance of the leadership, on the research paradigms and on the current forms of leadership – mainly, the comparative analysis between the participative leadership and the transformational one. The methodology used in developing our scientific research includes the quantitative, descriptive and explanatory analysis. The study case is based on a bank survey questionnaire. Our database includes 410 completed and valid questionnaires as follows: 150 for the employees carrying on manager positions and 260 for the normal employees not performing as managers. The responses received are distributed on a Likert scale with 5 levels (1- the minimum level, meaning total disagree and 5 – the maximum level, meaning total agreement). The conclusions of our research emphasis that in the banking structures with important and great changes as the case of Romanian banking system, is necessary a transformational leadership based on innovation. Innovations lead to employee development, contribute to the organization improvement, to the increase of the company profitability and to the development of new banking products and services. Innovations lead to changes, the leaders offer the information necessary for understanding changes and create confidence in changes. The transformational leadership integrates also elements of participative leadership but creates a higher degree of satisfaction and cohesion among the members of the groups, low level of conflicts/disputes, greater performances and influences the creative behaviour, is favoring the commitment to the brand and increases the satisfaction at work. The development of a strong organization is achieved only through inseparable connection between organizational culture and leadership.