Title: The relationship between leadership styles and creativity individuals: the mediating role of the individual's confidence in his creative strategic capabilities

Authors: Modaffer Ahmed Hussein

Addresses: Technical Institute – Hawija, Northern Technical University, Kirkuk, 36001, Iraq

Abstract: The study aimed to identify the extent to which leadership styles are practised in Iraqi oil and gas companies and to discover the mediating role of the individual's confidence in his creative strategic abilities in the strength of the relationship between the two styles of leadership and the level of creativity. The study included seven foreign companies working in the fields of oil and gas and seven national companies, and the adoption of a questionnaire distributed to a sample of 78 department managers and 234 individuals working in the fields of research and development, training, and planning departments. The results showed that there is a direct and strong relationship between the independent variables represented in entrepreneurial leadership and transformational leadership in the creativity variable. A path analysis test was conducted that showed a direct effect between the variables, and average variable represented by the individual's confidence in his creative strategic abilities.

Keywords: leadership styles; transformational leadership; entrepreneurial leadership; creativity of individuals; creative strategic capabilities.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMED.2023.128165

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, 2023 Vol.22 No.1, pp.45 - 71

Received: 13 May 2022
Accepted: 09 Oct 2022
Published online: 09 Jan 2023 *