Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted How Does Transformational Leadership Influence Employee Creativity Through Psychological Empowerment in the Health Industry? Lessons from Existing Theoretical and Empirical Literature(Queen’s Business School, 2024-09-13) Bin Jower, Aisha; Makowski, PiotrThis dissertation investigates the effect of transformational leadership on psychological empowerment and creativity in healthcare settings. The study addresses how leadership styles affect innovation and the performance of organisations in an industry that is chronically stressed, where rules are strict and ever-changing, and where patients’ needs are in constant flux. It uses a mixed-methods approach to existing data to explore several pertinent themes. One of these is how the behaviours of transformational leaders influence empowerment and how empowerment, in turn, mediates creativity among healthcare professionals. Furthermore, this research combines a quantitative analysis with a thematic qualitative review of the relevant literature to shed light on the association between leadership, empowerment, and creativity. The results indicate that transformational leadership has a strong, direct, and positive effect on psychological empowerment, which serves as a mediator for employee creativity, leading to improved innovation and job satisfaction. Also, it underscores ’the importance of context, demonstrating that effective healthcare leadership strategies should be tailored to the particulars of the environment if they are to achieve the desired effect. The dissertation concludes by recommending that healthcare organisations develop leadership programs that empower and nurture adaptability in their leaders: essential qualities that enable an organisation to meet the many challenges currently facing the healthcare industry. Future research should explore the specific kinds of leadership that serve the healthcare context and the support systems needed to create a culture of creativity within organisations14 0Item Restricted Factors Influencing Perceived Retirement Saving Adequacy Among Public Universities Employees in Saudi Arabia(2023) Ghadwan, Ahmad Saleh M; Wan Ahmad, Wan Marhaini; Hisham Hanifa, MohamedThe ultimate aim of this research is to investigate the measurable variables that could influence employees in their perceived retirement saving adequacy. These factors comprise the employee’s capacity (basic and advanced financial literacy, financial selfefficacy), psychological (retirement goal clarity and financial risk tolerance), and economic (assets ownership and debt) factors. To carry out this task, this study employs the Capability, Willingness, and Opportunity (CWO) Model to comprehend the factors that influence retirement saving and planning behavior, which was tested on public universities employees in Saudi Arabia. The study also examines the moderating effects of culture and government policies affecting these theoretical factors given the unique Arabs culture as well as the Saudi Arabia 2030 Strategic Vision. The analysis is based on data collected via questionnaires involving 558 staff working at 29 Saudi public universities. The study employs Structural Equation Modelling-Smart-PLS (SEM-PLS) methodology to analyze the relationships among the variables. This methodology is chosen as it is the only quantitative method that can simultaneously process a complex relationship between latent variables, enabling this research to analyze more than one layer of relationships between variables under study. The research contributed significantly to the body of knowledge in relation to retirement saving adequacy by examining two theoretical models: the Life Cycle Hypothesis (LCH) and Intentional Change Theory (ICT), on individuals’ awareness of PRSA practices. LCH provides the conceptual framework to explain, analyze, and predict the interaction and relationships between planning and saving on one side and investing for retirement on the other side among individuals. Meanwhile, ICT explains how employees intentionally start changing their consumption and saving behavior before reaching retirement age. An examination through the LCH and ICT lens gives a better understanding of financial planning processes and related retirement behaviors. The study found that, directly and indirectly, capacity, psychological, and external variables influence perceived retirement saving adequacy behavior. In the Saudi context, this thesis has found that only basic financial literacy, financial self-efficacy, retirement goal clarity, and asset ownership (other asset ownership) influenced perceived retirement saving adequacy among the sample respondents. This result suggests that several variables have assisted the respondents in planning and saving for their future and saving money, particularly for their retirement. Surprisingly, this thesis has found that asset ownership (homeownership) negatively influenced perceived retirement saving adequacy. The culture was found to affect the relationship between retirement goal clarity, asset ownership (homeownership), and perceived retirement saving adequacy. Meanwhile, government policy has affected the relationship between retirement goal clarity and debt (credit card loans). The diverse effects of each variable indicate the multi-throng responsibility of government agencies or policies like the Public Pension Agency (PPA) or Vision 2030 in developing a pension system that is deemed to be in accordance with the best interests of retirees.15 0