Influential aspects of leader's Bourdieu capitals on Malaysian landscape architecture subordinates' creativity

3rd International Conference on Research Methodology for Built Environment and Engineering 2017

生态环境科学

Zahari, R.^1 ; Ariffin, M.H.^2 ; Othman, N.^3

Centre of Postgraduate Studies, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Shah Alam

40450, Malaysia^1

Centre of Construction Management Studies, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Shah Alam

40450, Malaysia^2

Centre of Landscape Architecture Studies, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Shah Alam

40450, Malaysia^3

关键词: Consultant firms;    Emotional capitals;    Experiential knowledge;    Free Trade Agreement;    Landscape architects;    Landscape architecture;    Malaysian governments;    Semi structured interviews;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/117/1/012008/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/117/1/012008

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Free Trade Agreements as implemented by Malaysian government calls out local businesses such as landscape architecture consultant firm to explore internationally and strengthen their performance to compete locally. Performance of landscape architecture firm as a design firm depends entirely on creativity of the subordinates in the firm. Past research has neglected studying the influence of a leader's capitals on subordinates' creativity, especially in Malaysian landscape architecture firms. The aim of this research is to investigate the influence of subordinates' perceptions of the leader's Bourdieu capitals towards promoting subordinate's creative behaviours in Malaysian Landscape Architecture firms. The sample chosen for this research are subordinates in registered landscape architecture firm. Data was collected using qualitative semi-structured interviews with 13 respondents and analysed using Qualitative Category Coding. Aspects of the leader's social capital (i.e. knowledge acquisition, problem solving, motivation boosting), human capital (guidance, demotivating leadership, experiential knowledge, knowledge acquisition), and emotional capital (chemistry with leader, respect, knowledge acquisition, trust, understanding, self-inflicted demotivation) that influence subordinates' creativity were uncovered from the data. The main finding is that the leader's capitals promote the subordinate landscape architects or assistant landscape architect to be more creative based on three main things, first is knowledge acquisition, motivation, and ability for the leader to influence through positive relationship. The finding contributes to a new way of understanding the leader's characteristics that influence subordinates' creativity.