Research Design Step #1

Problem Statement

Leadership constitutes decision-making, and decision-making defines leadership style. Leaders can demonstrate contrasting levels of creativity. The concern about creativity is that the different individuals’ application of innovativeness can influence the success trend. The global economy and advanced levels of competitiveness require leadership swiftness with innovation. Leadership that does not innovate can struggle with maintaining a company’s market share as competition develops new approaches and offers to attack an increasing customer base. Organizational emphasis on the profitability interests of shareholders can cause increased disposal of talented leaders. However, it is difficult to identify exceptional leaders that excel in all forms of decision-making. Organizations must consider alternative strategies for achieving the desired innovative decision-making in leaders.

How can organizations support leaders to develop creativity and innovative decision-making?

Purpose Statement

The research should respond to the question about the transferability of innovativeness to leadership. The study should consider potential strategies for learning creativity and appreciates the possibility that such learning processes can influence the leadership’s transformation. The research will help understand whether organizations should focus on the leadership’s innovative decision-making strategies or consider the leader’s capacity to learn. The study’s findings can enhance organizations’ hiring  and training processes and the preference for different characteristics. The findings affirming the possibility of learning innovativeness can suggest that organizations can avoid replacing rigid leadership with creative personnel. The findings would suggest that organizations with diverse leadership approaches can succeed with the introduction of learning strategies that develop creativity.?

Research Design Step #2

Literature Review

Constructive learning approaches support learning creativity. According to Kettler, Lamb, and Dekelaita-Mullet (2019), students can learn creativity and innovation in classrooms. The researchers argue that creativity is a skill that can be acquired within the appropriate learning environment and implementation of specific teaching strategies. The study insists that creativity is among the skills of the 21st century. The discussion adds that creativity is not limited to developing new products and services. The research helps understand that leaders can learn to make creative decisions beyond product and service development. People can learn new ways of examining issues and make decisions in a transformed design after interacting within a learning environment. The argument is that students can learn creativity and begin to make innovative decisions.

Changes to a curriculum support skills development and increase innovation. Fjortoft, Gettig, and Verdone (2018) note that researchers have recommended changes to pharmaceutical education and created teaching strategies for innovation. Students interacting with specific learning processes realize increasing creativity. Pharmacies schools help improve students’ innovation by developing strategies for teaching and assessing creative thinking. The resource reveals that some individuals demonstrate increased levels of creativity compared to their peers. The different individuals can learn creativity and comprehend better ways of realizing their professional goals. According to Fjortoft, Gettig, and Verdone (2018), creativity is learnable, and an educator can develop specific and targeted strategies to ensure positive outcomes. The article affirms perspectives that leadership may learn creativity.

Another research affirms that innovation and creativity are learnable. McLaughlin and McLaughlin (2020) perceive trainers are resourceful professionals within learning environments. The researchers argue that individuals can learn within the organizational setting. Trainers can develop systems and teach strategies to accelerate an individual’s creativity and innovation. The study reveals potential for improvement among leadership and other staff. The training focused on creativity and innovation can improve organizational leadership. The approach suggests that specific teaching strategies can introduce and improve leaders’ innovation and creativity.

A study about business schools affirms the learnability of innovation and creativity skills. Consistent with Perignat and Meloche (2020), the students realize increasing success depending on their innovative and creative abilities. The study reports that business schools are compelled to review teaching strategies as means for creativity and innovation. The vital attitudes for successful leadership decision-making are considered different. The study considers the difference between creativity and innovation. The authors introduce the idea of creativity as an innate characteristic. The approach suggests that leaders either demonstrate creativity or lack the capacity to improve their potential for creative reasoning.

The belief in innate characteristics of creativity reemerges in another study. McLaughlin and McLaughlin (2021) argue that the innovation mindset is learnable and emphasize that people should be aware of the innate characteristic of creativity. The research finds that ideas are discovered coincidentally. The study dismisses the idea of people learning new ways of doing things and suggests that the people that realize such outcomes are lucky. The research discredits the notion of non-creative leadership acquiring the skills to make creative decisions.

Some studies use the terms creativity and innovation interchangeably, while others consider differences and argue that one is learnable while the other is innate which one is learnable? Which one is innate? Do you have citations for this argument? The innate should be assessed in the hiring process. The learnable can be taught through training This study will examine how leaders learn creativity and innovative decision making? . The research will contribute to the literature  of knowledge by reporting about the learnability of creativity at leadership context.

Research Methods

This study aims to answer the following research question:

RQ1: How can organizations support leaders to develop creativity and innovative decision-making?

            H1: Leadership training has positive impact on creativity

H2: Leadership training has a positive impact on innovative decision-making

The independent variable is leadership training, while the dependent variables are  creativity and innovative thinking and decision making.

Operationalization of variables:

The independent variable, leadership training will be measured in hours spent in organization’s  training programs. The first dependent variable, creativity,  refers to a leader’s ability to reimagine situations and solutions (develop this more. Maybe bring in references). The measure for creativity is the leader’s success in creating or implementing change designed to protect the organization from its competition. (not sure if this measure is correct)

The illustration highlights an increase in 10 project changes, new ideas, leadership approaches, or products with every incremental 10 hours of mentorship. Increased mentorship translates to increasing creativity. The expectation is to increase creativity with every hour spent on training. ?

Define innovative decision making and how to measure it in the research

Methodology:

The research will use qualitative data collection instruments. The method will allow access to information about the relationship between variables. The participants can share additional information enabling the researcher access to experiences and opinions about the application of strategies. Qualitative data collection generates  more in-depth knowledge than quantitative research. The study will use an open-ended survey questionnaire.

Sampling

My target population is employees at the supervisory and managerial levels in the oil and gas sector in Libya. The sample will include 10 participants  from one oil and gas company in Libya that the researcher is associated with. The researcher will receive permission to distribute the survey in that particular company by reaching out to the CEO and the HR department. The survey details will be shared online with all managers, and the volunteers will be requested to reply via email. The individuals demonstrating an interest will receive an invitation to complete an open-ended, online  survey. The first hundred surveys that are completed will be considered for the sample population. The researcher will  apply for the IRB protocol  and anticipate feedback before administering it.

For this class, a  pilot study will be conducted with a subset of the sample population. The researcher will ask 10 managers to answer the open-ended survey. The results are expected to reveal the correlation between training, creativity and innovative decision-making.

To do list:

• Add your open-ended survey questions(10 questions ).
• Conduct the pilot study
• Analyze and write up the findings.

Nots :

Yellow headlights means ( what do you mean ? is it related to the research or should delete it .

Blue sentences means the new changes in the research.