Servant leadership and employee creativity: The roles of psychological empowerment and work-family conflict

DOI码：

10.1007/s12144-019-0161-3

发表刊物：

Current Psychology

项目来源：

"71702157 17sx7105"

关键字：

Servant leadership, Employee creativity, Psychological empowerment, Work-to-family conflict, Family-to-work conflict

摘要：

This study builds on self-determination theory to examine the factors that impact the effects that servant leadership has on employee creativity. An observation of460 employees from 11 banks in China revealed that (1) servant leadership is positively related to employee creativity, (2) follower psychological empowerment partially mediates the relationship between servant leadership and employee creativity, and (3) work-to-family conflict moderates the relationship between servant leadership and follower psychological empowerment, the relationship was more positive when work-to-family conflict was high, rather than low. Family-to-work conflict did not significantly affect this relationship. The findings provide a significant contribution to the psychological empowerment literature through its identification of psychological empowerment as an important psychological mediating mechanism that helps to enrich the psychological mechanism of servant leadership’s effect on employees. Additionally, the results provide a deeper understanding of boundary conditions (e.g. work-to-family conflict) for the impacts ofservant leadership on employees’ individual outcomes. Furthermore, the findings enrich the work–family conflict literature by providing support for distinguishing work-to-family conflict from family-to-work conflict.

备注：

This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant number 71702157) and the Foundation by Southwest University of Science and Technology (Grant number 17sx7104).

合写作者：

Yang, Jin, Gu, Jibao, & Liu, Hefu*.

学科门类：

管理学

文献类型：

J

卷号：

38

期号：

6

页面范围：

1417-1427

ISSN号：

1046-1310

是否译文：

否

发表时间：

2019-01-01

发布期刊链接：

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-0161-3