Artificial Intelligence: The Missing Link Between Leadership and Knowledge Management

Background

Over the years, there has been extensive research on leadership in different contexts and various theoretical foundations (Hogan & Kaiser, 2005; Horner, 1997; Yukl, 1989). These studies have brought out the phenomenal importance of leadership in organizations terming it as the single most important issue in human sciences. The studies clearly bring out the difference between good and bad leadership by suggesting that good leadership promotes effective team performance while bad leadership degrades the quality of life of everybody associated. Hence it can be concluded from these studies that leadership is hugely consequential for the success of not just organizations but also its employees. Not just well-being and success of employees, leadership has a direct bearing on the creativity and innovation capabilities of employees. This has been substantiated by previous studies where leadership has been studied as an umbrella terms and various mediating and moderating variables have been studied under the holistic term of leadership viz., transformational, transactional, empowering, authentic, ethical and servant leadership (Chen & Hou, 2015; Chiniara & Bentein, 2016; Hughes et al., 2018). All the above studies examine the consequential importance of leadership whether ethical or servant, for creativity and innovation in organizations, for employees and overall achievement of organizational outcomes. Further mediating variables like attentive focus on employees and climate for innovation have been identified as catalysts which enable leadership in organizations to influence positive outcomes.