
The role of empowering leadership in creating employee creativity : moderation – mediation mechanism
Author(s) -
S. Martono,
Nury Ariani Wulansari,
Moh Khoiruddin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/485/1/012060
Subject(s) - creativity , moderation , openness to experience , psychology , mediation , structural equation modeling , social psychology , moderated mediation , empowerment , knowledge management , sociology , political science , computer science , social science , machine learning , law
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of empowering leadership for the employee creativity through mediating role of motivation to learn, trust in leader, creative self-efficacy, and the moderating role of openness to experience variable. Questionnaire was used as the data collection method. For the sampling technique, it used a multi-stage sampling technique. The number of samples is 220 employees of state-owned banks in the city of Semarang, Indonesia. The data analysis used the Structural Equation Model (SEM) method with WarpPLS 6.0. Result of this research the leader empowerment has a positive effect on motivation to learn, trust in leader, creative self-efficacy and employee creativity. In addition, the results of the study also show that motivation to learn, trust in leader, and creative self-efficacy have a positive impact on employee creativity. The role of motivation to learn, trust in leader and creative self-efficacy is supported to mediate between empowerment on employee creativity. Also, openness to experience variable is supported as a moderation role.