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Purpose – The main purpose of this research is to investigate and explore the impact of Transformational leadership behaviors on Innovation; in addition to investigating the different employee’s perspective to transformational leadership behaviors due to their years of experiences and their gender characteristics at IT companies in Ramallah and Al-Bireh city. Design/Methodology/Approach – This research is uses the quantitative research design, therefore in order to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher designed a questionnaire to gather the primary information. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program was used for analysis. The study sample consists of (141) individuals from the mid-level managers and employees at IT Companies in Ramallah and Al-Bireh city to explore the Impact of Transformational leadership behaviors on Innovation at their companies. Findings – the analysis and testing of the hypotheses, the key findings of this research are: 1. Inspirational motivation has the highest score among the five dimensions of transformational leadership. By contrast, the dimension of attributes has the lowest score among the five dimensions with mean value. The overall score of transformational leadership is 3.62 out of 5 points-scale. 2. Inspirational motivation and attributes have a positive impact (statistically significant) on process innovation whereas the other three dimensions of transformational leadership have no impact on process innovation at the 0.05 level. 3. Inspirational motivation and attributes have a positive impact (statistically significant) on product innovation whereas the other three dimensions of transformational leadership have no impact on product innovation are at the 0.05 level. 5. None of the five dimensions of transformational leadership (individualized consideration, idealized influence, and intellectual stimulation, Inspirational Motivation, and Attributes) is statistically significant at the 0.05 level. This means that each of these dimensions has no impact on administrative innovation. 6. There is no significant statistical difference in employee’s perspective at IT Companies in Ramallah and Al-Bireh city to Transformational leadership behaviors due to years of experience at level 0.05. 7. There is no significant statistical difference in employee’s perspective at IT Companies in Ramallah and Al-Bireh city to Transformational leadership behaviors due to their gender at level 0.05.
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