The Importance and Role of Social Responsibility and Innovation Performance in the Relationship between Transformational Leadership Style and Corporate Performance

The purpose of this study is to consider the importance and role of social responsibility and innovation in the relationship between transformational leadership and firm performance. This research is an applied and descriptive-survey research. Due to the limited size of the statistical population, the whole population was used and all experts, senior experts and officials of Iran Khodro assembly halls were interviewed and questioned as members of the sample. Data gathering tool in this study is a questionnaire whose reliability and validity was verified and validated by using convergent and divergent validity methods. In order to select the data analysis method, the normality of the variables was first evaluated through skewness and kurtosis and tested by using a path analysis approach using AMOS software. According to the research findings, improving corporate social responsibility will increase the impact of transformational leadership on organizational performance. In addition, statistical findings show that improving innovative performance will increase the impact of social responsibility performance on organizational performance. Inferential results also show that as social responsibility improves, enterprise innovation and organizational performance will improve.