Does servant leadership foster creativity and innovation? A multi-level mediation study of identification and prototypicality

Diah Tuhfat Yoshida; Sen Sendjaya; Giles Hirst; Brian Cooper

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2013.08.013

Does servant leadership foster creativity and innovation? A multi-level mediation study of identification and prototypicality

Diah Tuhfat Yoshida^*, Sen Sendjaya, Giles Hirst, Brian Cooper

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Abstract

The purpose of this multi-level study is to examine how servant leadership affects both employee creativity and team innovation. Drawing from social identity, in particular, relational identification theory, we found on the basis of a two-nation Asian sample of 154 teams that servant leadership promotes individual relational identification and collective prototypicality with the leader which, in turn, fosters employee creativity and team innovation. In addition, our study suggests that the mediated effect of leader identification is strongest when team climate for innovation is high.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1395-1404
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Business Research
Volume	67
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2013.08.013
Publication status	Published - Jul 2014
Externally published	Yes

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