The Impact of Transformational Leadership on Organizational Commitment and Intention to Stay: Empirical Evidence From China’s Performing Arts Industry

As part of the cultural industries, performing arts has been playing an important role in enriching people’s spiritual life, leveling culture and education, creating jobs, and even making economic benefits. Hence, a significant methodology is required to tackle the complicated concepts of transformational leadership (TL) and social factors in an arts industry context. This article aims to observe the direct impacts of TL on organizational commitment (OC). Furthermore, it examined the indirect effects of TL on OC and intention to stay (ITS) via person–job fit (PJF), social capital (SC), and psychological capital (PC). According to the results of this research, TL was discovered to have a positive impact on OC and PJF while having no significant effect on ITS. Furthermore, PJF had a significant impact on SC. Moreover, SC significantly influenced PC. In addition, PC was discovered to be in a significant correlation with OC while having no significant association with ITS. Finally, OC was also in a significant relationship with ITS.