How Employees’ Performance in The Lebanese Banking Sector is impacted by Innovative Leaders’ Characteristics

Allam Mawlawi, Abir El Fawal and Bassel Maaliky

The objective of this research is to investigate if innovative leaders and their characteristics in banks located in different region in Lebanon can improve employees’ performance. This research followed the quantitative deductive methodology using a Likert scale questionnaire constituted of 18questionsand the conducted sample was formed of 250 employees from 25 commercial banks in Lebanon, where 10 questionnaires were randomly distributed to employees in every bank located in different Lebanese area. This research used SPSS as a statistical tool to analyze data and results showed that 60% of the population is formed by females, 40% of the sample is aged between 31 to 37 years, 62% of the sample has a maters level. The Alpha Cronbach of this study was equal to 0.868, 68% of the conducted banking sample use leaders in banks to reach organizational goals, 30% of the sample use innovative leadership style and the multiple linear regression results showed a significant relation between 4 characteristics of innovative leaders and employees’ performance, these characteristics are use realism and emotions, accept risk and failure, use innovators and finally openness and passion. The linear regression results of this research confirm that when innovative leaders use their intuition they cannot impact their employees’ performance at work in the Lebanese banking sector.