Abstract:
The article will identify and analyse the significance of creativity and innovation as
essential aspects of innovative leadership in the public sector. Innovation denotes
the synthesis of different leadership styles that influence employees to produce
creative ideas, products, services and solutions. In this process the role of the
innovative leader and his/her creative planning and initiatives is indispensable as
he/she shapes the nature and success of creative efforts within the organisation. The
article posits that innovation has some similarities with creativity, a concept that
denotes a new synthesis of ideas that might or not be put in practice. Innovation
leadership is quite a complex concept that denotes the strategic and visionary role of
the leader in shaping organisational roles and different modes of planning, design,
decision-making, implementation, assessment and monitoring of outputs that aspire
to be innovative both in theory and practice. Innovation leadership’s connection to
creativity is directly related in many ways to organisational encouragement that
allows strategic tactical and organisational renewal based on well-thought plans
that permeate the whole spectrum of the organisation. The article further pinpoints
the significance for an innovative leader to guide a public organisation in shaping,
adjusting strategies and tactics against corruption at all operational levels.
