English Abstract
Abstract:
Bahrain's industrial sector has full-fledged to convert in the most significant
provider to non-oil Gross Domestic Product. This study examines the impact of the
transformational leadership practiced by company on innovation in the workplace of
the industrial sector in Bahrain. This rescarch study has focused on examining
transformational leaders who envoy the authority, inspire participative decision-
making, and feel empowered to complete the tasks with a supreme collective identity
and cohesiveness. A self-administrated questionnaire is evolved and validated where
the study is implemented on 186 employees working in Aluminum Bahrain (Alba)
organization. The outcome confirms the significance positive influence of the
Transformational leadership on Innovation in the workplace in organizations like
Aluminum Bahrain (Alba). The finding proved the positive and significant relationships
between transformational leadership and empowerment as well as support for
innovation and a positive relationship between support for innovation and innovation
in the workplace in addition to the positive impact between empowerment and
innovation in the workplace.
Furthermore, the relationship between Empowerment and Innovation in the
workplace is ranked number one due to its strong correlation coefficient followed by
the relationship between Support for innovation and Innovation in the workplace then
Transformational leadership and Innovation in the workplace, Transformational
leadership and Empowerment and finally Transformational leadership and Support for
innovation. Therefore, Empowerment is the key element for achieving innovation in
the workplace so leaders in industrial organizations should focus their attention on
empowering employees by delegating more autonomy to their employees. This study
deems one of the few of its kind undertaken in Bahrain's industrial sector context.
There are limitations like many other studies, such as non and low-educated workers
in the industrial sector, the sample size is relatively small, the time-constrained and the
difficulty to access data from industrial companies.
Keywords: Transformational Leadership, Innovation in the Workplace, Empowerment,
Support for Innovation, Decision-Making, Inspirational Motivation, Individual Consideration,
Intellectual Stimulation, Idealized Influence, Industrial Sector, Bahrain.
