Navigating the Nexus: How Transformational Leadership and Cultural Diversity Influence Employee Creative Behaviour through Employee Information Elaboration

Abstract

This study examines the interacting effects of transformational leadership and cultural diversity on enhancing employee creative behaviours in the workplace, with a focus on the mediating role of employee information elaboration. Utilizing the social information processing theory as the theoretical framework, the research clarifies how transformational leadership and cultural diversity influence employee creative behaviour through the cultured processing of diverse informational inputs. The methodology implements on a quantitative method, engaging a stratified random sample of 260 employees from various manufacturing organizations. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire, consist of the transformational leadership and cultural diversity, the elaboration of information about and employee creative behaviour. AMOS and SPSS software were used in the analysis; SEM was adopted to determine the causal relationships between the constructs. Research demonstrates that transformational cross cultural leadership has a positive relation with employee information elaboration and employee creative behaviour, where employee information elaboration acts as a mediator in these processes. Particularly, the transformational leadership and cultural diversity were unprotected to have a significant impact on employee creativity by encouraging their information elaboration, which supports the proposed hypotheses that improved employee information processing boosts manufacturing employees’ creativity. Therefore, the outcomes of these findings are as follows. In terms of policy recommendations, the study encourages manufacturing managers to promote diversity and bring out transformational leadership to the manufacturing facility to improve for innovation and creativity. Theoretically, it improves social information processing theory by explaining how employee information elaboration is a mediator of the identified relationship between cultural diversity and employee creativity on the individual level. This study improves leadership and diversity management allowance, offering a novel approach to using strategic information elaboration to raise employee creativity and providing practical strategies for directing diverse, competitive markets.