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The Relationship of Leadership Dtyles Towards Employees’ Creativity: Mediating Effect of Employees’ Empowerment in UAE Manufacturing Companies Ahmad, Md Fauzi; Jumaa Alhosani, Jumaa Mohammed; Mohd Nawi, Mohd Nasrun
International Journal of Supply Chain Management Vol 8, No 2 (2019): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)
Publisher : ExcelingTech

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (13.163 KB) | DOI: 10.59160/ijscm.v8i2.3062

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The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate impact of transformational and transactional leadership on employees’ creativity and employee empowerment in this association. Over the past many decades, employees have become an organizing way of coordinating work within organization. This trend creates new challenges for leaders, as they are expected to improve their creativity simultaneously. This study proposes a conceptual framework for understanding leadership styles and employees’ empowerment to individual employees which would influence creativity. The conceptual framework includes employees’ empowerment and support for creativity as mediating variables in the effect of leadership styles on employees’ creativity. The study also validates the proposed conceptual framework using a second-order confirmatory factor analysis technique, namely, structural equations modeling, with the data collected from 597 followers from four e-government organizations in the UAE. The findings suggest that transformational and transactional leadership has significant positive impact on employees’ creativity. Moreover, employees’ empowerment have partial mediation effect in the relationship between leadership styles and employees’ creativity.This study contributes to the research that identifies employees’ creativity influenced by transformational and transactional leadership that can affect employee success and performance, particularly in the context of UAE-based egovernment organizations.
The Relationship of Transformational Leadership Towards Employees’ Innovation with Mediating Effect of Employees’ Empowerment in UAE Manufacturing Companies Ahmad, Md Fauzi; Jumaa Alhosani, Jumaa Mohammed; Mohd Nawi, Mohd Nasrun
International Journal of Supply Chain Management Vol 8, No 2 (2019): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)
Publisher : ExcelingTech

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (13.163 KB) | DOI: 10.59160/ijscm.v8i2.3061

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– This study aim is to investigate empirically relationship of transformational leadership on employees’ innovation with the mediating effects of employees’ empowerment in this relationship. In past decades, employees’ innovation have become an progressively well-liked way of systematising and organising work. This style makes new tests for leaders, as they are anticipated to encourage individual employees and to improve their performance through innovation consecutively. Conceptual framework for this study, suggests an understanding idea championing and idea implementation which would influence innovative performance of individual employees. The conceptual framework includes employees’ empowerment as mediating variable in the relationship of transformational leadership on employees’ innovation. The study also validates the proposed conceptual framework using a confirmatory factor analysis technique, namely, structural equations modeling, with the data collected from 597 respondents from four e-government organizations in the UAE. The findings suggest that transformational leadership has significant positive impact on employees’ innovation. Moreover, employees’ empowerment have partial mediation effect in the relationship between transformational leadership and employees’ innovation.This study contributes to the research that identifies employees’ innovation influenced by transformational leadership that can affect employee success and performance, particularly in the context of UAE-based e-government organizations.