Leadership Styles and Competitive Advantage: Does Employee Creativity Mediate The Relationship

Murshid Mohamed Obaid Almheiri,Abd Rahim Romle,Rusdi Omar

doi:10.48165/sajssh.2022.3108

Murshid Mohamed Obaid Almheiri, Abd Rahim Romle + Show 1 more

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https://doi.org/10.48165/sajssh.2022.3108

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Abstract

Competitive advantage is considered as an element which is critical to achieve. This study argued that employee creativity is important for gaining competitive advantage. Likewise. the study also argued that leadership behavior play a significant role in developing creativity among employees. For the purpose of colleting the data three leadership behaviors which are supported by the literature in incorporating employee creativity for gaining competitive advantage have been chosen. The data for transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and autocratic leadership has been collected from the prior studies. The reliability and validity of the instrument has also been ensured and the data has been collected from department of Government housing programs in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Sharjah – UAE. The results of partial least square, structural equation modeling revealed that transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and autocratic leadership has a direct and significant positive impact over employee creativity as well as competitive advantage. The findings further ensured that employee creativity mediates the relationship between transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and autocratic leadership and competitive advantage. The findings have practical as well as theoretical significance. At the end some limitations and future recommendations are also mentioned.

Highlights

A competitive advantage is the recognition that an organization delivers either quality products, services, or support at a greater value than the competition
The creativity is explained as a design in which the employee makes such innovative in public sector, in which the work-related problems are resolved in rightful manner with step-by-step process, some explain it as the ability of the individuals, how they can develop useful solution to meet the challenges and overcome the problem them self individually (Gu, Wang, Liu, Song, & He, 2018)
The current study has provided additional evidence to the growing body of knowledge concerning the mediating role of employee creativity in the relationship between, transformational leadership, transactional leadership, autocratic leadership, and competitive advantage

Summary

INTRODUCTION

A competitive advantage is the recognition that an organization delivers either quality products, services, or support at a greater value than the competition. This study analyzed the role of leadership styles and creativity on gaining completive advantages in Housing department in Sharjah-UAE. Those qualities are important to make advantages to the organization especially with the diffusion of IR4.0 techniques. The study is important because it examines all the leadership styles impact on competitive advantages in UAE with consideration of creativity as a mediator as well. The inclusion of competitive advantages and modeling it with leadership styles and creativity in public sector is unique and no study before examined these relations. The results are important to decision makers and management in UAE to recognize the Leadership styles and creativity role in public sector

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