Linking Empowering Leader to Creativity: The Moderating Role of Psychological (Felt) Empowerment
By Nurdan Özarallı. 2015
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Abstract One of the challanges of today's organizations is creating a corporate culture which promotes employee creativity and innovation. For creativity to occur in organizations, leaders have considerable influence over the context within which creativity can ocur. Synthesizing theories of leadership, creativity, and psychological (felt) empowerment, this empirical paper investigates (a) whether an empowering leader can encourage creativity; and (b) whether subordinates’ psychological (felt) empowerment will moderate the ralationship between empowering leadership and creativity. Survey data were collected from 218 employees in technology and service sector and the obtained data from the questionnaires were analyzed through the SPSS 16.0. Analyses results revealed that empowering leadership positively affected employee creativity. In addition, employees’ felt empowerment moderated this link. Leaders’ empowering behaviors have a stronger impact on perceived creativity when employees feel empowered than when such psychological state of mind is low. Theoretical and cultural implications of the findings were also discussed.
Subfields: Demography, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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- Perceived organizational support, employee creativity and proactive personality: The mediating effect of meaning of work (2018, background): “Empowered employees experience meaning of work (Spreitzer, 1995), which also leads to high intrinsic motivation (Fook, Brinten, Sidhu, & Foo, 2011; Lashley, 2001; €Ozarallı, 2015).”
- Perceived leader behavioral integrity and employee voice in SMEs travel agents: The mediating role of empowering leader behaviors (2018, background): “In addition, €Ozarallı (2015) acknowledged that leaders can manage their organizations successfully by empowering their employees, giving them the freedom to produce new solutions to problems and invigorating them to work toward the organization's vision.”