The Effects of Transformational Leadership, Organizational Innovation, Work Stressors, and Creativity on Employee Performance in SMEs
Purpose of the StudyThe significance of creativity and performance in the workplace has been illustrated on various occasions. This study aims to find out if there is a link between transformative leadership, organizational innovation, psychological issues such as hindrance and challenge stressors,...
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| author | Jawaria Nasir Rashidah M. Ibrahim Muhammad Arslan Sarwar Binesh Sarwar Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi Fahad Alturise Ahmad Samed Al-Adwan Mueen Uddin |
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| description | Purpose of the StudyThe significance of creativity and performance in the workplace has been illustrated on various occasions. This study aims to find out if there is a link between transformative leadership, organizational innovation, psychological issues such as hindrance and challenge stressors, and employee creativity and employee performance. There is still a lack of awareness of the factors that influence employee performance in small and medium businesses (SMEs) in Pakistan. Pakistan’s SMEs have struggled to survive in their early years, with an initial failure rate of 90 percent to 95 percent.MethodologyThe relationship between hindrance and challenge stressors, organizational innovation, transformational leadership, employee creativity, and their effect on overall employee performance is established through employing Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). In this study, constructs were developed from existing theories, hypotheses were generated, data were collected from 424 SME employees, and SEM analysis was conducted to prove the suggested hypothesis. The employees of SMEs are the research study’s unit of analysis.FindingsThe findings of this study demonstrated that challenge stressors, transformational leadership, and employee creativity all had positive and significant effects on employee performance.Originality/ValueThis is one of the first studies to study and extends existing understanding of psychological research in this manner and following correlations in a developing country, Pakistan: the links between transformational leadership and employees’ perception of creativity and performance along with organizational innovation and work stressors. Based on theoretical considerations, a model is proposed, and hypotheses are established and explored. The findings of this study can help businesses increase employee performance by informing employee performance improvement methods. Business executives might learn more about how to engage and motivate employees to improve their performance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3c128f97485a4343a245259fe886f3732022-12-22T01:47:56ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-04-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.772104772104The Effects of Transformational Leadership, Organizational Innovation, Work Stressors, and Creativity on Employee Performance in SMEsJawaria Nasir0Rashidah M. Ibrahim1Muhammad Arslan Sarwar2Binesh Sarwar3Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi4Fahad Alturise5Ahmad Samed Al-Adwan6Mueen Uddin7Faculty of Business & Management, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Kuala Nerus, MalaysiaFaculty of Business & Management, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Kuala Nerus, MalaysiaFaculty of Management and Administrative Sciences, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, PakistanDepartment of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Sahiwal, PakistanFaculty of Social Sciences & Humanities, School of Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, MalaysiaDepartment of Computer, College of Science and Arts in ArRass Qassim University, Ar Rass, Saudi ArabiaElectronic Business and Commerce Department, Business School, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Amman, JordanSchool of Digital Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Gadong, Brunei DarussalamPurpose of the StudyThe significance of creativity and performance in the workplace has been illustrated on various occasions. This study aims to find out if there is a link between transformative leadership, organizational innovation, psychological issues such as hindrance and challenge stressors, and employee creativity and employee performance. There is still a lack of awareness of the factors that influence employee performance in small and medium businesses (SMEs) in Pakistan. Pakistan’s SMEs have struggled to survive in their early years, with an initial failure rate of 90 percent to 95 percent.MethodologyThe relationship between hindrance and challenge stressors, organizational innovation, transformational leadership, employee creativity, and their effect on overall employee performance is established through employing Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). In this study, constructs were developed from existing theories, hypotheses were generated, data were collected from 424 SME employees, and SEM analysis was conducted to prove the suggested hypothesis. The employees of SMEs are the research study’s unit of analysis.FindingsThe findings of this study demonstrated that challenge stressors, transformational leadership, and employee creativity all had positive and significant effects on employee performance.Originality/ValueThis is one of the first studies to study and extends existing understanding of psychological research in this manner and following correlations in a developing country, Pakistan: the links between transformational leadership and employees’ perception of creativity and performance along with organizational innovation and work stressors. Based on theoretical considerations, a model is proposed, and hypotheses are established and explored. The findings of this study can help businesses increase employee performance by informing employee performance improvement methods. Business executives might learn more about how to engage and motivate employees to improve their performance.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.772104/fullwork stressortransformational leadershipcreativityorganizational innovationemployee performance |
| spellingShingle | Jawaria Nasir Rashidah M. Ibrahim Muhammad Arslan Sarwar Binesh Sarwar Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi Fahad Alturise Ahmad Samed Al-Adwan Mueen Uddin The Effects of Transformational Leadership, Organizational Innovation, Work Stressors, and Creativity on Employee Performance in SMEs Frontiers in Psychology work stressor transformational leadership creativity organizational innovation employee performance |
| title | The Effects of Transformational Leadership, Organizational Innovation, Work Stressors, and Creativity on Employee Performance in SMEs |
| title_full | The Effects of Transformational Leadership, Organizational Innovation, Work Stressors, and Creativity on Employee Performance in SMEs |
| title_fullStr | The Effects of Transformational Leadership, Organizational Innovation, Work Stressors, and Creativity on Employee Performance in SMEs |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Effects of Transformational Leadership, Organizational Innovation, Work Stressors, and Creativity on Employee Performance in SMEs |
| title_short | The Effects of Transformational Leadership, Organizational Innovation, Work Stressors, and Creativity on Employee Performance in SMEs |
| title_sort | effects of transformational leadership organizational innovation work stressors and creativity on employee performance in smes |
| topic | work stressor transformational leadership creativity organizational innovation employee performance |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.772104/full |
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