Yaratıcılığın liderlikle teşvik edilmesi: Yaratıcılığın dönüşümcü liderlik ve çalışan performansı ilşkisindeki rolü

Transformational leadership, which is defined as the leadership style that promotes change in the workplace by uniting workers around a compelling vision of the future, has emerged as one of the most prominent theories in leadership literature in recent years. Effects of transformational leadership on the job performance of employees, and factors that might mediate this relationship, have been a point of interest for scholars. Present study suggests transformational leadership will have a positive relationship with the task performance of employees and puts employee creativity forward as a potential mediator between these variables. Creativity was chosen as a mediator because of its potential to facilitate change and innovation in the workplace, qualities which transformational leaderships arguably promotes. Moreover, creative requirement of a job, which assesses employees' perception of how creative their jobs demands them to be, was hypothesized to have a moderating effect in this relationship; meaning in jobs with higher creative requirement, creativity was expected to have a stronger mediating effect between transformational leadership and task performance. To test these hypotheses, data was collected through surveys and analyzed using various statistical methods. Results offered support for the hypothesized relationships between transformational leadership-creativity and creativity-task performance. However, findings contrary to initial expectations regarding the moderating effect of creative requirement on creativity as mediator, suggested other factors such as the ceiling effect must be considered to better understand this relationship. The study concludes by discussing these findings and offering potential directions for future research.