Transactional leadership in public sector organizations: A bibliometric analysis

In rapidly changing and dynamic environments, transactional leadership plays an essential role in achieving long-term success in public sector organizations. This leadership style emphasizes setting clear priorities and managing tasks to ensure that individual efforts align with organizational goals. This study aims to review the literature on transactional leadership from the past thirty years (1993–2023) through a bibliometric analysis of authorship, citations, countries, and publication sources. A total of 95 articles from the Scopus database are analyzed using VOSviewer software. The results show that, at the individual level, transactional leadership positively impacts job satisfaction, psychological empowerment, and employee performance. At the organizational level, it consistently enhances organizational commitment, culture, innovation, and performance.