The Impact of Authentic and Transformational Leadership on Employees’ Creativity in the Omani Public Sector: The Mediating Role of Organizational Commitment

Stimulating the creativity among the employees of public sector institutions remains one of the most challenging missions of any leadership style. Drawing a recent emergent literature dealing with leadership styles and creativity, the paper identifies recent theoretical and empirical research highlighting organizational commitment as an important bridge between leadership practices and the employees’ creativity enhancement. Hence, the current proposed conceptual framework aims to focus on the impact of authentic and transformational leadership on the employees’ creativity of the public sector, through the mediating role of organizational commitment. The originality of this paper is toward highlighting the indispensability of organizational commitment in consolidating a robust bridge that may make these leadership styles more effective in generating creative dynamism in public institutions. This paper could open a great debate for the community of researchers to focus more on contingent models of leadership effectiveness in terms of “what”, “why’ and ‘How” stimulating the creativity of public sector employees.