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Title Effect of Manager's Perceived Leadership Style on Employee's Creativity: A Mediation Role of Social Capital

Author(s) Muhammad Ali

Abstract Thesis Title: Effect of Manager’s Perceived Leadership Style on Employee’s Creativity: A Mediation Role of Social Capital This study examines the impact of leadership styles on employee’s creativity in the presence of social capital. The three leadership styles have marked as independent variable, while social capital and employee’s creativity marked as mediated and dependent variables respectively. A self-administrative questionnaire was distributed to the managers in the textile sector of Faisalabad. The sample size of present study is 300 in which 270 are the respondents. Convenience sampling technique has been used. To test the hypothesis, we use to analysis by two separate statistical techniques 1st is Barron & Kenny and 2nd is Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). According the results of first technique, social capital, supportive leadership style and instrumental leadership style are significantly impact on employee’s creativity, but Participative Leadership Style has insignificant effect on Employee’s Creativity. There is no mediation between instrumental leadership style and employee’s creativity as well as there is no mediation between supportive leadership style and employee’s creativity, likewise there is no mediation between participative leadership style and employee’s creativity. According the results of second technique supportive leadership style has significant effect on employee’s creativity in the presence of social capital, and participative leadership style and instrumental leadership style are insignificant effect on employee’s creativity in the presence of social capital. Keywords: Participative Leadership Style, Supportive Leadership Style, Instrumental Leadership Style, Social Capital, Employee’s Creativity.

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Faculty Management Sciences

Department Management Sciences

Language English

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