The moderating role of knowledge sharing and mediating role of employee creative self-efficacy on the association of empowering leadership and employee creativity

Muhammad Arshad, Chen Kun Yu, Aneela Qadir, Waqar Ahmad and Changwen Xie

International Journal of Management Practice, 2021, vol. 14, issue 6, 660-681

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.

Keywords: empowering leadership; employees' creativity; creative self-efficacy; knowledge sharing. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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