TY - JOUR
T1 - Empowerment and creativity
T2 - A cross-level investigation
AU - Sun, Li Yun
AU - Zhang, Zhen
AU - Qi, Jin
AU - Chen, Zhen Xiong
PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - Drawing upon social learning and self-determination theories, we hypothesized and tested a chain mediating process linking empowerment to employee creativity. Based on data from 385 employees working with 104 supervisors in multiple organizations in China, we conducted cross-level path analyses and found that (1) structural empowerment partially mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and psychological empowerment, (2) psychological empowerment fully mediated the relationship between structural empowerment and creativity, and (3) structural and psychological empowerment sequentially mediates the relationship between transformational leadership and creativity. This study integrated different perspectives of empowerment and provides important insights into the mechanisms linking empowerment with creativity.
AB - Drawing upon social learning and self-determination theories, we hypothesized and tested a chain mediating process linking empowerment to employee creativity. Based on data from 385 employees working with 104 supervisors in multiple organizations in China, we conducted cross-level path analyses and found that (1) structural empowerment partially mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and psychological empowerment, (2) psychological empowerment fully mediated the relationship between structural empowerment and creativity, and (3) structural and psychological empowerment sequentially mediates the relationship between transformational leadership and creativity. This study integrated different perspectives of empowerment and provides important insights into the mechanisms linking empowerment with creativity.
KW - Creativity
KW - Cross-level path analysis
KW - Psychological empowerment
KW - Structural empowerment
KW - Transformational leadership
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U2 - 10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.11.005
DO - 10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.11.005
M3 - Article
SN - 1048-9843
VL - 23
SP - 55
EP - 65
JO - Leadership Quarterly
JF - Leadership Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -