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Exploring the impacts of transformational supervision on supermarket store managers’ creativity: evidence from Nigeria, South Africa, and the United Kingdom

Alo, Obinna, Cooper, Cary, Arslan, Ahmad and Tarba, Shlomo (2022) Exploring the impacts of transformational supervision on supermarket store managers’ creativity: evidence from Nigeria, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION, 52 (2).

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Abstract

The current article is one of the rare studies to specifically focus on the contextual conditions under which the learning-related actions of transformational supervisors’ help retailing supermarkets’ store managers to learn and engage in behaviors that produce creative outcomes. We use a
qualitative research approach with the data based on in-depth semi structured interviews with 40 retailing supermarkets’ store managers in Nigeria, South Africa and the UK. Our findings show that transformational supervision significantly boosts store managers’ creativity, facilitated by fostering
store managers’ learning orientation, creative role identity (CRI) and creative self-efficacy (CSE), in all three contexts. From our findings, we have developed a model that symbolize the role of transformational supervisors in fostering store managers’ creativity, which provides a baseline for supermarkets in (re)evaluating the significance of their leadership styles on follower creativity.

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Uncontrolled Keywords: Creative role identity; creative self-efficacy; creativity; learning orientation; supermarket store managers; transformational supervision
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Depositing User: Obinna Alo

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Item ID: 16182
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2022.2072069
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/16182

Users with ORCIDS

ORCID for Obinna Alo: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2860-6544

Catalogue record

Date Deposited: 31 May 2023 14:46
Last Modified: 11 Jul 2023 08:01

Contributors

Author: Obinna Alo ORCID iD
Author: Cary Cooper
Author: Ahmad Arslan
Author: Shlomo Tarba

University Divisions

Faculty of Business, Law and Tourism > Sunderland Business School

Subjects

Business and Management > Business
Business and Management > Human Resource Management
Business and Management > Management (general)

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