1 Bộ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐẠI HỌC KINH TÉ THÀNH PHÓ HÓ CHÍ MINH BÁO CÁO TÓNG KÉT ĐÈ TÀI NGHIÊN cứu KHOA HỌC THAM GIA XÉT GIẢI THƯỞNG ‘’NHÀ NGHIÊN CỨU TRẺ UEH’’ NĂM 2024’’ THE RELATIONSHIP OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP WITH EMPLOYEE CREATIVITY AND ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION: A CASE STUDY OF COMMERCIAL BANKS IN HO CHI MINH CITY. Thuộc nhóm chuyên ngành: Kinh tê - Quán trị kinh doanh TP. Hồ Chí Minh, tháng 1/2024 2 SUMMARY The topic discusses the relationship of transformational leadership with employee creativity and organizational innovation at commercial banks in Ho Chi Minh City. Researching and discussing this relationship, helps bank leaders correctly recognize transformational leadership and its great role in organizational innovation, thereby helping banks.
Commerce in particular and other organizations and businesses in general have solutions to help leaders improve employee creativity and organizational innovation, contributing to promoting business development. The proposed model includes 5 main hypotheses and 1 control relationship between educational level to creativity. The research was conducted in two stages: secondary data research and quantitative research. Research secondary data: systematize theories related to the topic and interview 5 lecturers and 15 leaders of commercial banks in Ho Chi Minh City to build, develop, and supplement measurement scales, thereby proposing a research model.
Quantitative research: testing the scale and the appropriateness of the research model. Collect data using a survey questionnaire (n=300). Collected data were processed and analyzed using SPSS 20 software through descriptive statistics, testing the appropriateness of the model and research hypotheses using regression to test the Cronbach's Alpha scale, and factor analysis. EFA discovery factor.
In addition, the research team also conducted analysis using Smart PLS4 software to test and confirm the relationship between the hypotheses as well as the con-elation level of the proposed model. The research results show that all 5 hypotheses are accepted, however, the test results do not show any impact of the control variable of education level on the creativity of successful commercial bank employees. Ho Chi Minh City. Keywords: transformational leadership, employee creativity, organizational innovation 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.1 Reasons for choosing the topic 8 1.
Scope and objects of research 9 J.3 Scope of research 9 1. Research objectives and research questions 10 1. Structure of research paper 12 2.1 Transformational Leadership Theory 14 2.2 Social Exchange Theory' (SET) 15 2.3 The componential theory of creativity 16 2.3 Hypothesis and research model 18 2.1 The relationship between transformational leadership and employee creativity 18 2.2 The Influence of the physical work environment on the relationship between transformational leadership and employee creativity^ 19 2.3 The relationship between transformational leadership and knowledge sharing 20 2.4 The relationship between knowledge sharing and employee creativity 21 2.5 The relationship of employee creativity with organizational innovation 22 2.6 The role of educational level control variables on employee creativity 23 3. Data collection methods 25 3.2 Building a measurement scale 26 3.
"Transformational leadership" scale (adapted) 26 3. "Physical work environment" scale (adapted) 27 3. Employee creativity scale (adjustable) 28 3. Knowledge sharing scale (adjusted) 28 4 3.
Organizational innovation scale (adjusted) 29 3.1 Description of the research sample 31 4.6 Di reel superio rs 34 4.2 Test the scale using Cronbach's Alpha 35 4.3 Results of EFA exploratory factor analysis 37 4.4 Results of structural model testing (SMART PLS4) 38 4.1 Check reliability and convergent validity' 38 4.2 Check collinearity through the VIF coefficient 39 4.3 Path coefficients and hypothesis testing 40 4.4 Check the model's suitability 43 4. Testing differences in employee creativity according to educational level 45 4.6 Discussion of results 46 5.1 Summary of research content 48 5.3 Limitations and future research directions 50 5 LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Transformational Leadership Scale Table 2: Physical Environment Scale Table 3: Scale to measure employee creativity Table 4: Knowledge sharing scale Table 5: Organizational Innovation Scale Table 6: Gender statistics of survey participants Table 7: Statistics on the age of respondents participating in survey Table 8: Statistics on the educational level of survey participants Table 9: Statistics on seniority working at the bank of survey participants Table 10: Statistics of work departments of survey participants Table 11: Statistics of direct superiors of survey participants Table 12: Income statistics of survey participants Table 13: Testing scales using Cronbach's Alpha Table 14: Results of analysis of CA, CR, and AVE Table 15: Inner VIF Values Table 16: Path coefficients between EC, KS, OI, PEW and TL Table 17: Determination coefficient R Square (R2) and R Square Adjusted (R2Adj) Table 18: Impact coefficient f2 Table 19: Results of SRMR and NFI 35 analysis Table 20: Checking homogeneity of variance Table 21: ANOVA table by education 6 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Proposed model 16 Figure 2: Results of research model 33 7 LIST OF ACRONYMS Acronyms Full English words ANOVA Analysis of Variance AVE Variance Extracted CR Cronbach’s Alpha EFA Exploratory Factor Analysis KMO Kaiser - Mayer - Olkin SET Social Exchange Theory VIF Variance inflation factor 8 CHAPTER 1.1 Reasons for choosing the topic In the current context of globalization and unpredictable changes in the world, businesses are constantly trying to survive and develop. In particular, innovation through creativity is an important factor in creating the success and competitive advantage of organizations (Woodman Ct al., 1993) as well as for a strong economy (Drucker, 1985). Organizations need to be more creative and innovative than before to survive, compete, grow, and lead (Jung et al., 2003; Tierney et al.
Therefore, stimulating individual creativity is a vital factor for businesses to be able to promote their strengths, implement strategic innovation, maintain competitiveness, and survive in the market. In organizational development, leadership is considered one of the important factors affecting employees' creative behavior and organizational innovation. Furthermore, leadership has been considered a key driver of organizational innovation. Nowadays, many studies have shown interest in the influence of transformational leadership style on creativity and innovation.
Transformational leadership style has been proven to motivate, stimulate creativity, and enhance employee confidence, thereby positively affecting work results (Avolio, 1999); (Pillai & Williams, 2004). Ho Chi Minh City is the nucleus of the southern key economic region, one of the country's three largest key economic regions. Oriented to 2030, Ho Chi Minh City will be the economic and financial center of Southeast Asia. To achieve the above goal, the banking industry is increasingly demonstrating its important role in leading the economy, being the main capital channel to serve production and business, contributing to promoting economic restructuring, building an independent and self-reliant economy, and improving people's lives.
Currently, Ho Chi Minh City is the largest financial and banking center in Vietnam, leading the country in the number of banks and financial and credit companies. By the end of 2020, there were a total of 2,164 credit institutions operating in Ho Chi Minh City, of which commercial banks were 1,967 units, accounting for 90.9%, creating immense competitive pressure, same big. Therefore, to stand out among countless competitors requires commercial banks to 9 consider innovation as a key factor to help improve banks' operational efficiency in the current situation. However, through the research process, the team realized that currently, only a few studies have considered the impact of transformational leadership and its intermediary relationships on subordinates’ creativity and creativity, organizational innovation, especially in the volatile banking sector.
From those foundations, the group carried out the topic "The relationship of transformational leadership with employee creativity and organizational innovation: Case study of commercial banks in Ho Chi Minh City" to Research the relationship of transformational leadership with employee creativity and organizational innovation of commercial banks in Ho Chi Minh City. From there, propose solutions for leaders at all levels to enhance employee creativity and organizational innovation, contributing to the development of commercial banking organizations in particular as well as the Vietnamese economy in general. Scope and objects of research 1.1 Research subjects The relationship of transformational leadership with employee creativity and organizational innovation of commercial banks in Ho Chi Minh City.2 Survey objects Employees working at commercial banks in Ho Chi Minh City (minimum 6 months).3 Scope of research The research was conducted at commercial banks in Ho Chi Minh City from March 2023 to August 2023. Research objectives and research questions 1.1 Research objectives The main objective of the research is to determine and analyze the relationship of transformational leadership with employee creativity and organizational innovation of commercial banks in Ho Chi Minh City.
In addition, the study also examined the mediating effects of psychological empowerment and knowledge sharing; The moderating impact of work environment on the relationship between transformational leadership and employee creativity; At the same time, evaluated the controlling impact of age, education, and gender on employee creativity. From there, the research team proposed several directions that contribute to improving employee creativity and effectively innovating the organization. Thereby, contributing to the development of commercial banking organizations in particular and the Vietnamese economy in general. What factors impact the relationship of transformational leadership with employee creativity and organizational innovation? 2.
What is the level of impact of each factor on the relationship of transformational leadership with employee creativity and organizational innovation? 3. What is the relationship of transformational leadership to employee creativity and organizational innovation at commercial banks in Ho Chi Minh City? 4. What management implications can be drawn to help commercial banks in Ho Chi Minh City improve employee creativity and organizational innovation? 1. Research methods The research uses mixed research methods including qualitative research methods and quantitative research methods: Qualitative research methods: 11 Qualitative research methods are used to study the theoretical basis and systematize theories of related scientific research topics.
Then the group discussed with instructors and conducted qualitative interviews with 5 instructors with experience teaching leadership and innovation and 15 leaders of commercial banks in Ho Chi Minh City. Minh to build, develop, and supplement measurement scales. The interview content was prepared in advance and included open questions and statements related to transformational leadership and its direct and indirect impact on employee creativity and organizational innovation. The statements were translated into Vietnamese and the content was adjusted to be accurate, easy to understand, and consistent with the cognitive context of the interview subjects.
Through the results of exchange and discussion along with the observed variables synthesized from the theoretical basis, the research team edited the terms used in the scale and adjusted the observed variables appropriately, to measure research definition. Quantitative research methods: Quantitative research methods are used to test the built scale and measure the relationships and impact levels between factors. The team used survey questionnaires to collect data. Questionnaires answered by employees working at commercial banks in Ho Chi Minh City are a tool to collect quantitative data.
The questionnaire contains statements, each statement is measured based on a 5-level Likert scale. The sampling method in this study is a convenience sampling method. After data collection, useful survey results will be processed and analyzed using SmartPLS 4 software.1 Theoretical meaning The study provides a basis for conducting repeat research on the relationship between transformational leadership, employee creativity, and organizational innovation in organizations in fields other than commercial banking, and at the same time, is a useful reference for future research on transformational leadership and organizational innovation.2 Practical significance The topic highlights the importance of the leadership team in stimulating the creative working ability of employees and contributing to organizational innovation to survive and develop sustainably in the full financial and banking market, fluctuations. At the same time, based on the research results, the group offers some recommendations for commercial banks in Ho Chi Minh City to encourage transformational leadership based on consideration and appropriate adjustments, working environment, age, and gender factors of employees,.
thereby maximizing employee creativity and organizational innovation.