Authentic Leadership and Employee Creativity：Trust and Psychological Safety Perspectives

Abstract

Innovation is one of the margin sources for nowadays enterprises Innovation ability of enterprises comes from employee innovations Yet how do enterprises cultivate employee creativity? Sources of employee creativity might include personality group atmosphere and leadership style Leadership style is an important issue in organization studies This study focuses on authentic leadership; a supervisor leads employees by demonstrating their self-awareness relational transparency balanced processing and internalized moral perspective It aims to understand whether authentic leadership contributes to the increase of employees’ affect-based trust cognition-based trust and psychological safety Furthermore it seeks to investigate the effects of affect-based trust cognition-based trust and psychological safety on employee creativity 785 questionnaires were collected Excluding 185 invalid questionnaires 600 valid questionnaires were statistically analyzed using SPSS Statistics 17 0 and SmartPLS (V 3 2 8) Results are as follows 1 Self-awareness relational transparency balanced processing and internalized moral perspective were positively related to affect-based trust and cognition-based trust 2 Self-awareness relational transparency balanced processing and internalized moral perspective were positively related to psychological safety 3 Relational transparency was positively related to employee creativity while self-awareness balanced processing and internalized moral perspective were not 4 Affect-based trust was positively related to employee creativity while cognition-based trust was not 5 Psychological safety was not positively related to employee creativity Keywords: Authentic leadership; Trust; Psychological safety; Employee creativity

Date of Award	2019
Original language	English
Supervisor	Hsien-Ta Li (Supervisor)