پيوند هدايتگرهاي توانمند ساز و خلاقيت مديران و كاركنان : تأثير توانمند سازي روانشناختي ، انگيزش ذاتي و به كارگيري فرايند خلاق

Linking Empowering Leadership and Managers and Employeesʹ Creativity: The Effect of Psychological Empowerment, Intrinsic Motivation and Creative Process Engagement

In this article, by combining theories of leadership, empowerment and creativity, a theoretical model capable of linking empowering leadership with creativity through several variables was tested. Using the survey data obtained from professional managers and employees and their supervisors, we found, as anticipated, that empowering leadership positively affected the psychological empowerment, and the psychological empowerment affected both the intrinsic motivation and the creative process engagement. Therefore the last two variables had positive impacts on creativity. Empowerment role identity modifies the linkage between empowering leadership and the psychological empowerment, while leader encouragement of creativity modifies the relationship between the psychological empowerment and the creative process engagement.