BUS606 - Master of Business: Leadership, Creativity, and Productivity

This presentation delves into the critical relationship between leadership and employee creativity, examining how different leadership styles, such as transformational, democratic, and situational approaches, influence employee behavior and productivity. It highlights the importance of leadership in setting clear goals, motivating employees, and fostering a creative work environment. The presentation discusses both the positive impacts of effective leadership and the negative consequences of ineffective leadership on employee engagement and innovation. Recent trends in leadership culture, such as flexibility and agility, are also addressed, along with recommendations for leaders to improve communication and strategic direction within their organizations. The presentation concludes by emphasizing the role of employee creativity in achieving competitive advantages and business success, supported by references to relevant research.

Introduction
• The aim of the presentation is to enlighten the reader with
the information about the concept of leadership and its
connection with employee creativity. Leadership plays a
crucial role in satisfying the interest of employees and
making them work for the benefits of the organization
(Tse, To, and Chiu 2018).

Leadership Style and Employee
Creativity
• Leadership refers to the act of leading the actions of
others present in the society.
• It helps the management in making the employees
understand the objectives of the business and make them
work effectively.
• The leaders in the society recognize the creative actions
implemented by the employees and address them
accordingly (Zhang, et. al., 2018).

Importance of Leadership in
Society
• Leadership is important in the business environment
because it sets out clear vision and goal for the employees
to work upon and then initiate appropriate strategies
accordingly.
• It should be noted that appropriate leadership also helps
the management to understand and motivate employees
so that they work in direction of achieving success for
business (Wang, et. al., 2019).

Different Types of Leadership
Styles
• Based on different types of leadership requirement
present in the society, the leaders also implement diverse
leadership practices in the environment.
• Some of the famous leadership practices are
transformational, democratic and situational leadership.
• The leaders implement such practices according to the
requirement of business environment and their personal
characteristics as well (Ma, and Jiang 2018).

Relation of Leadership with
Employee Contribution
• Productivity in the business is directly connected with the
kind of leadership implemented by the management in the
business environment.
• It should be considered that appropriate leadership
motivate the employees and combine their personal
growth with organizational growth so that they contribute
towards the completion of goals of the business (Gu, et.
al., 2018).

Impact of Negative Leadership on
Employee Creativity
• Considering the impact of negative leadership on
employee creativity, it should be noted that ineffective or
negative leadership disconnects the employees from the
functions of the business.
• Resulting in which, the employees does not contribute
their 100% in the activities due to which productivity of
the business subsequently depletes (Duan, Liu, and Che
2018).

Impact of Positive Leadership on
Employee Creativity
• Positive or appropriate leadership brings the best within
the employees.
• This type of leadership would make the employees to
attain loyalty for the company and seek new challenges to
accomplish for the business on a regular basis.
• It should be noted that leadership brings out the best in
people if incorporated accordingly (Chow, 2018).

Recent Trends in Leadership
Culture
• Globalization activity has started changing the face of
leadership culture in the society. Flexibility and agility are
considered to be two most crucial trends present in the
leadership culture.
• These features of leadership actively promotes the creativity
functions in the business as well. Flexibility makes the
employees to test diverse strategies and implement the best
one under the guidance of the leader (Javed, et. al., 2017).

Recommendation
• Thus, it is recommended to the leaders that they should
work on communicating with the employees in a better way.
• Communication is the key to implementing each and every
function in the business environment.
• Therefore, communication would increase the strategic
direction of the business would make the management
deliver benefits to the employees effectives (Yang, Liu, and
Gu 2017).

Conclusion
• Thus, in the limelight of above mentioned events, the
presentation highlighted details about leadership and its
relation with creativity.
• Employee creativity is a factor that could help the
business eliminate competitive and achieve competitive
advantage.

References
• Chow, I.H.S., 2018. The mechanism underlying the empowering leadership-creativity
relationship. Leadership & Organization Development Journal.
• Duan, S., Liu, Z. and Che, H., 2018. Mediating influences of ethical leadership on employee
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• Feng, J., Zhang, Y., Liu, X., Zhang, L. and Han, X., 2018. Just the right amount of ethics inspires creativity:
A cross-level investigation of ethical leadership, intrinsic motivation, and employee creativity. Journal of
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• Gu, J., Wang, G., Liu, H., Song, D. and He, C., 2018. Linking authoritarian leadership to employee
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Cont.
• Tse, H.H., To, M.L. and Chiu, W.C., 2018. When and why does transformational leadership
influence employee creativity? The roles of personal control and creative personality. Human
Resource Management, 57(1), pp.145-157.
• Wang, Y., Tang, C., Naumann, S.E. and Wang, Y., 2019. Paternalistic leadership and employee
creativity: A mediated moderation model. Journal of Management & Organization, 25(1), pp.137-
156.
• Xu, B.D., Zhao, S.K., Li, C.R. and Lin, C.J., 2017. Authentic leadership and employee creativity:
Testing the multilevel mediation model. Leadership & Organization Development Journal.
• Yang, J., Liu, H. and Gu, J., 2017. A multi-level study of servant leadership on creativity. Leadership
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• Zhang, S., Ke, X., Frank Wang, X.H. and Liu, J., 2018. Empowering leadership and employee
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Psychology, 91(4), pp.896-917.