Author(s)

Salem Mohamed A. Mansur, Guozhu Jia

Corresponding Author

Salem Mohamed A. Mansur

ABSTRACT

The organizational creativity is that the outcome of the distinguished individuals' and team performance, which is characterized by authenticity in their ideas and solutions; there is little doubt that this performance is influenced by the content of the regulatory environment. Accordingly, creative performance needs understanding the role of leadership as one of the most important components of the organizational environment in enhancing subordinates' capabilities and outcome. Consequently, this paper aims to investigate how transformational leadership is linked to creativity via psychological empowerment. The sample of the study consisted of 429 faculty members from higher technical institutions in Libya. The findings showed that transformational leadership and psychological empowerment affect organizational creativity. Moreover, the findings also indicate that psychological empowerment has a strong and positive relationship in mediating between transformational leadership and creativity. Nevertheless, this relationship may not be possible if the followers did not have sufficient freedom to perform their functions which was reflected on their confidence, abilities, self-efficacy, and sense of their impact on the work environment. The results of this paper contribute to the literature related to organizational creativity by promoting the understanding of the effect of transformational leadership and empowerment on organizational creativity.

KEYWORDS

Transformational leadership, psychological empowerment, organizational creativity, Libya