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Knowledge Management Practices and Transformational Leadership Traits: Predicting Process Innovation in FMCG Industry Knowledge Management Practices and Transformational Leadership Traits: Predicting Process Innovation in FMCG Industry Organizations in the current competitive and challenging situation considered organizational process innovation to sustain themselves with competitive advantage and provisioning of high value products to consumers. The current study investigates the role of transformational leadership traits and knowledge management practices on predicting the process innovation in FMCG companies. Data has been collected from the 10 FMCG companies located in major two cities i.e. Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan. Sample of 200 top line managers have been selected by convenience sampling method and adapted itemized questionnaire has been presented to the top management after a brief session of face to face interviews. Response of 170 top line employees has been registered and statistical testing has been done on SPSS 22. Results indicated that the transformational leadership traits has significantly positive impact on process innovation which effectively expedites the production efficiency of manufacturing units. The knowledge management practices such as acquisition, transfer and application has strong and positively significant association with process innovation. The knowledge management practices positively mediates with transformational leadership traits and resultantly lays foundation for continuous process improvement to survive in market. This conceptual model practically helps the production and manufacturing companies to nurture positive change management attitudes, decreasing production time, expanding products range, development of skills needed to advocate and adopt change, employee involvement, commitment and benefits of large scale economy. This study is limited to FMCGs in major cities and can be expanded to services industry and test the conceptual model. Ben Saad, Ghazi Al Altheeb, Saad Abbas, Muzaffar FMCG Innovation Knowledge Management Transformational Leadership Change Process Innovation 8 SPE2 Núm. SPE2 , Año 2020 : Número especial: Prácticas de la psicología educativa en Europa y Medio Oriente Artículo de revista Journal article 2020-07-31T00:00:00Z 2020-07-31T00:00:00Z 2020-07-31 application/pdf Carrera de Psicología, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Perú. Propósitos y Representaciones 2307-7999 2310-4635 https://revistas.usil.edu.pe/index.php/pyr/article/view/662 10.20511/pyr2020.v8nSPE2.662 https://doi.org/10.20511/pyr2020.v8nSPE2.662 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Propósitos y Representaciones - 2020 e662 e662 https://revistas.usil.edu.pe/index.php/pyr/article/download/662/1020 info:eu-repo/semantics/article http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1 http://purl.org/redcol/resource_type/ART info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 Text Publication |
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Knowledge Management Practices and Transformational Leadership Traits: Predicting Process Innovation in FMCG Industry Ben Saad, Ghazi Al Altheeb, Saad Abbas, Muzaffar FMCG Innovation Knowledge Management Transformational Leadership Change Process Innovation |
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Knowledge Management Practices and Transformational Leadership Traits: Predicting Process Innovation in FMCG Industry |
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Knowledge Management Practices and Transformational Leadership Traits: Predicting Process Innovation in FMCG Industry |
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knowledge management practices and transformational leadership traits: predicting process innovation in fmcg industry |
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Knowledge Management Practices and Transformational Leadership Traits: Predicting Process Innovation in FMCG Industry |
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Organizations in the current competitive and challenging situation considered organizational process innovation to sustain themselves with competitive advantage and provisioning of high value products to consumers. The current study investigates the role of transformational leadership traits and knowledge management practices on predicting the process innovation in FMCG companies. Data has been collected from the 10 FMCG companies located in major two cities i.e. Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan. Sample of 200 top line managers have been selected by convenience sampling method and adapted itemized questionnaire has been presented to the top management after a brief session of face to face interviews. Response of 170 top line employees has been registered and statistical testing has been done on SPSS 22. Results indicated that the transformational leadership traits has significantly positive impact on process innovation which effectively expedites the production efficiency of manufacturing units. The knowledge management practices such as acquisition, transfer and application has strong and positively significant association with process innovation. The knowledge management practices positively mediates with transformational leadership traits and resultantly lays foundation for continuous process improvement to survive in market. This conceptual model practically helps the production and manufacturing companies to nurture positive change management attitudes, decreasing production time, expanding products range, development of skills needed to advocate and adopt change, employee involvement, commitment and benefits of large scale economy. This study is limited to FMCGs in major cities and can be expanded to services industry and test the conceptual model.
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Ben Saad, Ghazi Al Altheeb, Saad Abbas, Muzaffar |
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Ben Saad, Ghazi Al Altheeb, Saad Abbas, Muzaffar |
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FMCG Innovation Knowledge Management Transformational Leadership Change Process Innovation |
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FMCG Innovation Knowledge Management Transformational Leadership Change Process Innovation |
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Núm. SPE2 , Año 2020 : Número especial: Prácticas de la psicología educativa en Europa y Medio Oriente |
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