The Influence of Authentic Leadership on Creativity and Innovativeness

By Büşra Müceldili, H. Turan, Oya Erdil. 2013

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Abstract This study analyzes how authentic leadership (AL) predicts innovativeness both directly and indirectly; through mediating role of employees’ creativity. For analyzing the relationship, a survey on a sample of one hundred and forty two employees working in both manufacturing and service firms in Turkey is conducted in the research. The main findings are; AL has a positive relationship with employees’ creativity; employees’ creativity has a positive impact on innovativeness and AL has a positive relationship with innovativeness. The study contributes to understanding the role of AL on creativity and innovativeness. The empirical findings of this research will lead practitioners the value authentic leadership in trying to enhance creativity and innovativeness.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Strategy and Management

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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Yuosre F. Badir
2. Bilal Bin Saeed
3. Shakir Hafeez
4. Bilal Afsar

In Social Psychology

1. Bilal Bin Saeed
2. Shakir Hafeez
3. Yuosre F. Badir
4. Bilal Afsar

In Strategy and Management

1. Bilal Bin Saeed
2. Yuosre F. Badir
3. Bilal Afsar

Citations in the corpus

• Transformational and transactional leadership and employee’s entrepreneurial behavior in knowledge–intensive industries (2017, background): “Transformational leaders transform existing systems, plan new ways to address problems, and exhibit optimism and excitement about these novel perspectives (Elkins & Keller, 2003; Müceldili et al., 2013).”