Servant Leadership and Creativity: A Study of the Sequential Mediating Roles of Psychological Safety and Employee Well-Being
With today’s increasingly dynamic and competitive business environment, creativity is critical for enterprises to enhance their competitiveness. Companies today invest and seek new ways to enhance creativity of employees within the organization. Our study describes the effects of servant leadership,...
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| author | Wenxian Wang Seung-Wan Kang Suk Bong Choi |
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| description | With today’s increasingly dynamic and competitive business environment, creativity is critical for enterprises to enhance their competitiveness. Companies today invest and seek new ways to enhance creativity of employees within the organization. Our study describes the effects of servant leadership, psychological safety, and employee well-being on creativity under the conservation of resources theory. We used a sample of 252 full-time employees in the United Kingdom who had been recruited online and collected their data for analysis. We conducted confirmatory factor analyses to test the validity of the measurement model and regression to evaluate the direct effects. Subsequently, we used bootstrapping to confirm mediation and serial mediation effects. The results showed that servant leadership was positively related to creativity and that psychological safety and employee well-being were serial mediators between them. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-292eae63521e41418e7186eea7fe867c2022-12-21T17:16:53ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-02-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.807070807070Servant Leadership and Creativity: A Study of the Sequential Mediating Roles of Psychological Safety and Employee Well-BeingWenxian Wang0Seung-Wan Kang1Suk Bong Choi2College of Business, Gachon University, Seongnam, South KoreaCollege of Business, Gachon University, Seongnam, South KoreaCollege of Global Business, Korea University, Sejong City, South KoreaWith today’s increasingly dynamic and competitive business environment, creativity is critical for enterprises to enhance their competitiveness. Companies today invest and seek new ways to enhance creativity of employees within the organization. Our study describes the effects of servant leadership, psychological safety, and employee well-being on creativity under the conservation of resources theory. We used a sample of 252 full-time employees in the United Kingdom who had been recruited online and collected their data for analysis. We conducted confirmatory factor analyses to test the validity of the measurement model and regression to evaluate the direct effects. Subsequently, we used bootstrapping to confirm mediation and serial mediation effects. The results showed that servant leadership was positively related to creativity and that psychological safety and employee well-being were serial mediators between them.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.807070/fullservant leadershippsychological safetyemployee well-beingcreativityconservation of resources theory |
| spellingShingle | Wenxian Wang Seung-Wan Kang Suk Bong Choi Servant Leadership and Creativity: A Study of the Sequential Mediating Roles of Psychological Safety and Employee Well-Being Frontiers in Psychology servant leadership psychological safety employee well-being creativity conservation of resources theory |
| title | Servant Leadership and Creativity: A Study of the Sequential Mediating Roles of Psychological Safety and Employee Well-Being |
| title_full | Servant Leadership and Creativity: A Study of the Sequential Mediating Roles of Psychological Safety and Employee Well-Being |
| title_fullStr | Servant Leadership and Creativity: A Study of the Sequential Mediating Roles of Psychological Safety and Employee Well-Being |
| title_full_unstemmed | Servant Leadership and Creativity: A Study of the Sequential Mediating Roles of Psychological Safety and Employee Well-Being |
| title_short | Servant Leadership and Creativity: A Study of the Sequential Mediating Roles of Psychological Safety and Employee Well-Being |
| title_sort | servant leadership and creativity a study of the sequential mediating roles of psychological safety and employee well being |
| topic | servant leadership psychological safety employee well-being creativity conservation of resources theory |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.807070/full |
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