The Relation Between Creative Leadership and Crisis Management Among Faculty Members at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University in Light of the Corona Pandemic from the Perspective of Department Heads

The current study aimed to reveal the relation between the practice of creative leadership style and crisis management among faculty members at Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University (IAU), from the perspective of the heads of academic departments. A descriptive correlative approach was used by applying a questionnaire to a random sample of (100) Head of Department, during the second semester of the academic year 1442/1443. The findings revealed that faculty members practice both creative leadership and crisis management to a high degree. The study recommended holding training courses for faculty members, creating incentives systems and rewards, stimulating creative leadership among faculty members in universities, and spreading a culture of creativity. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.