Faculty of Administration and Economics / University of Kerbala has discussed the role of skillful leadership in strengthening the relationship between cognitive diversity and the creative performance of the group – an analytical study of the opinions of a sample of teachers and heads of departments in faculties of Wasit University”. It has been presented by Zainab Khalil Hassan.
The study aims at testing the interactive role of skillful leadership in strengthening the relationship between cognitive diversity and the creative performance of the group for a sample of teachers and heads of departments at Wasit University.
The study includes a one-dimensional measure of the variable of cognitive diversity, and a two-dimensional skill scale (open leadership behaviours, closed leadership behaviours), as well as a measure of creative performance of the group through three dimensions (idea generation, ideas promotion, implementation of ideas).
The study concludes that there is an interactive role of skillful leadership element in strengthening the relationship between cognitive diversity and the creative performance of the group.
