The moderating role of knowledge sharing and mediating role of employee creative self-efficacy on the association of empowering leadership and employee creativity. (10th November 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Arshad, Muhammad; Yu, Chan Kun; Qadir, Aneela; Ahmad, Waqar; Xie, Changwen
• Is Part Of: International journal of management practice. Volume 14:Number 6(2021)
• Page Start: 660
• Page End: 681
• Publication Date: 2021-11-10
• Subjects: empowering leadership -- employees' creativity -- creative self-efficacy -- knowledge sharing; Management -- Periodicals; 658.005
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1477-9064

Abstract

The study's purpose is to explore the relationship among empowering leadership (EL) and employee creativity through knowledge sharing and employee creative self-efficacy. A standard questionnaire is distributed among 352 employees and their leadership for data collection of the study. The study participants are taken from top management, including lower-level employees working in the telecommunication industry. We analyse data using the structural equation modelling technique. The results show that empowering leadership significantly affect employees' creativity and creative self-efficacy mediates the relation between empowering leadership and employee creativity and knowledge sharing to strengthen empowering leadership and employee creativity relationships. Our findings explain that leadership has a strong role in employees' creativity. Additionally, the implications of the study inform practitioners to investigate this phenomenon in other areas.