Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Education, Economics and Management Research (ICEEMR 2018)

Transformational Leadership and Individual Creativity: The Mediating Role of Structural Empowerment

Authors
Salem Mohamed A. Mansur, Guozhu Jia
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Salem Mohamed A. Mansur
Available Online June 2018.
DOI
10.2991/iceemr-18.2018.169How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Transformational Leadership, Structural Empowerment, Individual creativity, higher technical institutes, Libya
Abstract

This paper investigates the mediating role of structural empowerment between transformational leadership (TLs) and individual creativity. A sample based data was collected from 450 faculty members from higher technical institutions (HTIs) of Libya. The findings indicate that TL and structural empowerment positively affect individual creativity. The findings also indicate that structural empowerment partially mediates the relationship between TLs and individual creativity. The findings will contribute to transformational leadership, empowerment and creativity literature in a part of the world in which limited knowledge is available in this area. The results are valuable for Libyan’ decision makers in HTIs so that they can enrich their agenda in designing programs to develop managers’ leadership skills and enhance creative behaviors of their employees. The results of this research contribute to the literature on individual creativity in education management literature by enhancing the understanding of the influences of structural empowerment and transformational leadership on individual creativity among faculty members. This study offers important policy insight for higher technical leadership who seek to increase individual creativity among faculty members.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Education, Economics and Management Research (ICEEMR 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
June 2018
ISBN
978-94-6252-521-4
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/iceemr-18.2018.169How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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