Organisational growth and sustainable development a proceed of transformational leadership, UI Don Affirms

Professor Catherine Oluwatoyin Chovwen, Professor of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, Faculty of The Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, has recommended that organisations incorporate personality assessments into hiring and training processes, adding that regular surveys be conducted to assess life and job satisfaction among the employees for organisational growth and sustainable development.
Professor Chovwen made the recommendation while delivering the 553rd Inaugural Lecture of the University of Ibadan, titled “The Workplace: Epiphany and Reality of Betterness,” emphasising that transformational leadership characterised by team building, innovation, brainstorming, and training contributes a large quota to organisational performance.
She reiterated that affective commitment involves positive emotional attachment through cultural alignment and team building activities advising leaders to develop strategies to enhance employees’ commitment in every sector. “They should also develop policies promoting transparency, inclusive decision making, and recognition programmes” she added.
Professor Chovwen stressed that regular feedback on organisational climate and citizenship behaviours can be used to continuously improve the work environment, emphasising that tenacious commitment requires clarity of roles, competitive compensation, and career development opportunities, while normative commitment requires ethical leadership and a strong mission.
Professor Chovwen said the epiphany of the Nigerian workplace calls for the provision of a better and more realistic work context that will require Organisational Psychologists to analyse events, situations, practices, processes and behaviour for optimal employee performance, organisational growth and sustainable development.