Innovation and Leadership: A Study of Organizations Based in the United Arab Emirates

Leaders show indifference toward the tasks that employees are handling

Leaders use punishment and discipline to change the behavior of employees

Leaders use power to ensure that the tasks given to the employees are completed

Employees are allowed to make their own decisions until they make a mistake

The absence of support and a positive working environment is prominently visible

Leaders focus on short-term, immediate solutions or objectives

Leaders focus on increasing efficiency in current practices

Leaders do not take employees’ needs and personal growth into consideration

There is openness, strength, and supportiveness in the relationship between employees and supervisors

Information flow is open

New ideas are supported at all levels of the organization

Presence of freedom and autonomy

Resources (materials and information) are available

There are pressures of positive challenge and negative workload pressure

Organizational impediments to creativity (negative conservatism and internal strife)

There is clarity of goals

There is the freedom to make work-related decisions independently

There is a sense of control over one's job

Leaders have inspirational motivation/charisma

Leaders are recognized as change agents

Leaders are guided by values

Leaders are oriented toward lifelong learning

Leaders are visionaries who trust people

Leaders motivate followers to improve their performance

Leaders can remove any obstacles and resistance toward changes

Leaders promote organizational members’ participation in collective decisions and activities

Leaders promote openness, which enhances the creation of structures and systems at all levels of the organization

Leaders can cope with complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty

Leaders instill a new approach to the culture

Leaders create a climate of job satisfaction and commitment to quality service

Support for innovation is there

Collaboration outside the organization is encouraged

Decentralized decision-making is found

There is a clear status on resources (time, money, and tools)

The communication systems are clear

Consulting, mentoring, and coaching are embedded in organizational processes

Direct management and control are present

Recognition and economic incentives are a part of organizational processes