The Study of the Relationship between Transformative Leadership and Individual Creativity of Staff in Organizations

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the relationship between transformative leadership and individual creativity of staff in governmental organizations of Kerman city. This research is descriptive and correlational. To collect data, two questionnaires including Albrecht organizational intelligence questionnaire with 49 questions and Randsepp creativity questionnaire with 50 questions. The collected data was analyzed using spss software in two parts of descriptive statistics including central indicators and inferential dispersion and statistics in the form of Kendall and Spearman correlation coefficient on a population including 2286 people and a sample with 330 people. The results of the research show that there is a direct and significant relationship between transformative leadership and its components for individual creativity. According to the results it can be deduced that the transformational leaders encourage the staff to behave beyond their task (individual creativity). The greater the desire for change of managers, the higher their individual creativity and the higher the spirit of managers their individual creativity will be increased.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n4S1p234