LINKING TRAITS AND BEHAVIOR: HOW PERSONALITY SHAPES TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND DRIVES PERFORMANCE IN MIDDLE ADMINISTRATORS

An organization comprises people with a shared vision, mission, goals, and objectives who strive to achieve organizational effectiveness in getting the right things done within the constraints of available resources. The purpose of this paper is to present the influence of middle administrators' personality traits and transformational leadership on their perceived work performance towards school organizational effectiveness. The research was carried out in the Higher Education Department. The sample size is 65 people who were middle administrators. A panel of experts validated the instrument's validity. Data were treated using statistical tools. According to the results, openness to experience is the majority domain of the personality traits of middle administrators. For transformational leadership dimensions, most of them are inspirational motivational leaders. Furthermore, on working performance, middle administrators take a contextual performance approach. Moreover, the administration is the most extensive areas to measure organizational effectiveness. Moreover, study's findings are drawn that personality traits and transformational leadership are significantly correlated. On the other hand, transformational leadership had a positive impact on the outcome of their work performance. Nonetheless, middle administrators' work performance mediated the outcome to achieve organizational effectiveness. Furthermore, personality traits and transformational leadership are strongly linked to organizational effectiveness. Moreover, respondents' work performance significantly mediates the effect of respondents' personality traits and transformational leadership on the organizational effectiveness. Likewise, transformational leadership has a significant direct impact on the organizational effectiveness. The study's outcome is the organizational effectiveness model that will be the basis for the professional development plan for middle administrators.