 Transformational leadership dimensions and employee creativity in China: A cross-level analysisChaoping Li, Hao Zhao and Thomas M. Begley Journal of Business Research, 2015, vol. 68, issue 6, 1149-1156 Abstract: China's rapid economic growth is staggering but the country still has a long way to go before becoming a center for innovation and creativity. We examine whether or not transformational leadership can encourage employee creativity, using a Chinese-specific transformational leadership model. The study proposes a positive relationship between organization-level transformational leadership and individual level creativity which will be mediated by psychological safety climate. Analyses of multisource and multilevel data from 123 branches of a retail bank in mainland China show that two dimensions of transformational leadership, moral modeling and individualized consideration, are positively related to employee creativity. Although these two dimensions relate to a psychologically safe organizational climate, the climate does not relate to employee creativity. We discuss the findings in light of the Chinese cultural context. Keywords: Creativity; Transformational leadership; Culture; Cross-level analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:68:y:2015:i:6:p:1149-1156 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2014.11.009 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Business Research is currently edited by A. G. Woodside More articles in Journal of Business Research from Elsevier |
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