Linking ethical leadership to employee creativity: Knowledge sharing and self efficacy as mediators.

By Yueru Ma, Weibo Cheng, Barbara A. Ribbens, Juanmei Zhou. 2013

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Using social exchange theory and social learning theory, we examined the influence of ethical leadership on employee creativity through the mediation of knowledge sharing and self-efficacy. We tested our hypotheses with a sample of 309 employees and their supervisors from 4 Chinese companies, using a multiple mediation model. The results showed that ethical leadership was positively related to employee creativity and that this relationship was mediated by knowledge sharing and self-efficacy.

Subfields: Communication, Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Impact of ethical leadership on creativity: the role of psychological empowerment (2017, result): “The significant contribution of our study is that previous studies examined the effect of ethical leadership on consequential outcomes such as the process of social learning and social exchange (Brown & Treviño, 2006; Brown et al., 2005; Ma et al., 2013).”
Ethical Leadership, Affective Commitment, Work Engagement, and Creativity: Testing a Multiple Mediation Approach (2019, background): “In addition, leaders having ethical behaviors provide their followers a healthy environment which enables them to be more committed and engaged also lead to the forming of positive affect among employees, which helps to shape conditions for employees that will be conducive to coming up with novel an”
How Authentic Leadership Promotes Individual Creativity: The Mediating Role of Affective Commitment (2020, background): “A variety of studies have sought to understand the role of positive leadership—including transformational leadership (Gong, Huang, & Farh, 2009; Shin & Zhou, 2003) and ethical leadership (Ma & Cheng, 2013)—in employee creativity.”
Ethical leadership, trust in leader and creativity: The mediated mechanism and an interacting effect (2018, result): “These findings are also consistent with the findings of other researchers who found positive relationship between ethical leadership and creativity (Ma et al., 2013; Javed et al., 2016).”