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Author(s):
Fredrick Githui, Margaret Oloko (Prof.), Jane Njuru (Ph.D.), Caroline Ntara (Ph.D.).
Page No : 1-18
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Innovation Strategy and Performance of Government Commercial Institutions in Kenya.
Abstract
In an era of unparalleled technological transformation and an escalating demand for greater operational efficiency, innovation has increasingly become a key driver of organizational performance. This study explored the role that innovation has in shaping the performance of Kenya's government commercial institutions with the aim of finding out how various dimensions of innovation affect public sector performance. Grounded on a post-positivist philosophical stance and taking a quantitative research methodology, the study employed a descriptive survey design in collecting and analyzing data from a purposive sample of 34 state-owned enterprises. Questionnaires were constructed and distributed to key institutional personnel to collect primary data, while instrument reliability was established using Cronbach's alpha via SPSS software to determine internal consistency. Descriptive statistics provided information on general trends, and linear regression analysis was employed to analyze the strength and significance of the relationship between innovation variables and organizational performance. The findings revealed that automation of business processes had a positive and significant impact on institutional performance, particularly in terms of improving service delivery and organizational efficiency. Nevertheless, the impact of other forms of innovation—such as process and service innovations—turned out to vary significantly between institutions, which portrays that innovation is not universally applicable. The study concludes that innovation, when deliberately shaped to a specific institution's goals, means, and conditions, can be used as a vehicle for change to improve performance. It recommends that government commercial institutions employ innovation strategies that are not only evidence-based but also context-specific, focusing on measurable impacts and sustainability
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Author(s):
Wiam ID Boumsoud, Bilal Zaghmout, Ibtissam Maazouz, Yacoob Suleiman.
Page No : 19-33
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AI Adoption and the Evolution of Lecturer Leadership in UK Business Schools.
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This paper explores the ways in which the implementation of artificial intelligence is transforming the leadership roles of lecturers in business schools in the UK in terms of adapted leadership practices, role diffusion in academia, and decision-making. It aims to gain insight into the leadership role of lecturers in AI-infused learning environments. This study has a qualitative research design that is fundamentally interpretive in nature. Data for this research were gathered using a series of semi-structured interviews that were carried out with lecturers who were involved with AI technology in UK business schools. This research used a reflexive type of thematic analysis that allowed for a detailed examination of issues related to the leadership practices of AI technology in higher education. These results have shown that AI implementation is transforming the leadership of lecturers from being more individual-role-based to more practice-based forms of leadership. The leadership practices of lecturers are becoming more practice-based, including leadership through expertise exchange, support, and sensemaking, as opposed to role-based leadership. This transformation of leadership is also accompanied by various challenges of emotional labour, role ambiguity, and ethical complexities related to issues of academic integrity. It was revealed that support structures of institutions played important roles in determining the degree to which leadership practices enabled by AI were empowering or disempowering. This research makes a contribution to both the literature on leadership practices and literature on higher education by reframing the adoption of AI as a trigger for the development of lecturer leadership, as opposed to it being a technological issue. This research also pushes the development of literature on both distributed leadership practices as well as leadership practices by highlighting the importance of ethics being at the heart of AI-enhanced academic leadership practices.
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Author(s):
Wiam ID Boumsoud, Bilal Zaghmout, Ibtissam Maazouz, Yacoob Suleiman.
Page No : 34-47
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Imposter Syndrome and Senior Academic Leadership in UK Business Schools.
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This paper explores the role of the imposter syndrome in defining the leadership identity, the decisions taken, and the perception of effectiveness of senior leaders of UK business schools. Although the syndrome of the imposter has had considerable literature coverage in terms of research as an issue faced by young academics, little research seems to exist that explores this syndrome at the senior levels of leadership. It is evident that the study employs a qualitative research methodology that is rooted in the principles of the interpretivist paradigm. This study involved conducting in-depth interviews with senior academic leaders, such as Programme Directors, Departmental Heads, or Associate or Deputy Deans, in various business schools in the UK. Reflexive thematic analysis was employed for the analysis of data to understand the interpretation of IMPS among the senior academic leaders. Findings suggest that the presence of imposter syndrome is widespread among senior university leaders, sustained by performance-managed systems of governance, metric-based accountability, and uncertain leadership power. Perceptions of imposter syndrome shape leadership behaviours in complicated ways, including positively influencing self-monitoring, emotional labour, risk-aversion behaviours, and reflexive behaviours that also cultivate self-reflection, self-consciousness, or self-humility. Psychological safe work environments with collegiate support were shown to soften the experience of leadership self-doubt among university leaders with imposter syndrome. This research moves the literature on leadership forward by shifting the understanding of the imposter syndrome from a personal psychological issue to a structurally created phenomenon. This research offers new empirical evidence on senior academic leadership in the context of UK business schools, emphasizing the importance of dealing with the institutional factors that enable the issue of self-doubt in leadership.
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Author(s):
Nicholas Andoh (Ph.D.), John Lampogo (Ph.D.), Opare Darko Irene Lawrencia, Danso Dennis Osei (Ph.D.), Paul Quaisie Eleke-Aboagye (Ph.D.).
Page No : 48-66
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Unlocking Employee Creativity in Hospitality: How Empowering Leadership Builds Psychological Empowerment and Job Engagement in an Emerging Economy Context a PLS-SEM Analysis of Sequential Mediation Mechanisms in Ghana’s Hotel Industry.
Abstract
Purpose – This study examines how empowering leadership enhances employee creativity through psychological empowerment and job engagement in Ghana’s hospitality industry.
Design/methodology/approach – Survey data from 423 hospitality employees were analyzed using PLS-SEM, testing direct, parallel, and sequential mediation effects with 5,000 bootstrap resamples.
Findings – Empowering leadership significantly predicted creativity, psychological empowerment, and job engagement. Psychological empowerment and job engagement both independently and sequentially mediated the leadership–creativity relationship. The model explained 67.8% of the variance in employee creativity, with most effects operating indirectly through empowerment and engagement.
Practical implications – Hospitality organisations should strengthen empowering leadership, foster psychologically empowering work environments, and design engaging jobs to stimulate employee creativity.
Originality/value – The study advances leadership and creativity research by uncovering sequential mediation mechanisms in an under-researched African hospitality context.
