Predicting Employee Creativity through Transformational Leadership: Empirical Evidence from the Aluminium Manufacturing Sector in Rivers State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined the relationship between three dimensions of transformational leadership- namely, idealized influence (II), inspirational motivation, and individualized consideration (IC) and employees' commitment of Aluminum manufacturing companies in Rivers State. The study used a correlational design. Data were collected from 211 employees of six randomly selected aluminum manufacturing companies in Rivers State.  Structured questionnaire was the instrument for data collection. The Spearman's Rank Order Correlation Coefficient was used for analysis. The three components of transformational leadership used were found to positively and significantly associate with employee commitment. More so, workplace environment was found to mediate the association of transformational leadership and employees' creativity.  The study concluded that transformation leadership is important for growing creative employees in today's organizations and recommended that: 1. Organizations should train their leaders on transformational leadership skills to enable them transmit its values to employees. 2. Organizations should reward leaders that exhibit the characteristics of transformational leadership so that otherscan emulate same.