A though some OB scholars argue that organizational outcomes are marginally, if at all, affected by leadership ,there is evidence of a causal
link . Using archival statistics for professional baseball, finds that there
is a strong correlation between the quality of managers’ transactional
leadership , team success , and player performance . Not only do
higher-quality managers-measured by predicted pay relative to salary based on overall market trends-achieve better winning percentages, controlling for player skills, but also , player tend to perform better relative to prior
performance the higher the manager’s quality. This study also suggests that
transactional leadership , although often treated as problematic by OB scholars, can be quite consequential in certain contexts ; further research regarding the limits of transactional leadership may therefore be merited.