| PATERNALISTIC LEADERSHIP AND EMPLOYEE CREATIVITY: THE ROLE OF MEANING OF WORK AND PERSPECTIVE TAKING |
Received:October 15, 2017 Revised:October 15, 2017 |
Key Words: paternalistic leadership; employee creativity; meaning of work; perspective taking |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | Jinyun Duan | Department of Psychology, Soochow University | | Lifeng Han* | School of Business, Macau University of Science and Technology | | Jonathan Kwok | School of Professional Education and Executive Development, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
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Abstract: |
| This study tried to investigate how paternalistic leadership will influence employee creativity via meaning of work (MOW), and the moderating effect of perspective taking for the indirect effect of paternalistic leadership on employee creativity via MOW. Data were collected from 346 sets of matched samples from the employees and their supervisors. Results revealed that MOW mediates the relationship between all three dimensions of paternalistic leadership (i.e. authoritarianism, benevolence, and morality) and employee creativity. And perspective taking moderates the indirect effect of benevolence and morality on employee creativity through MOW, but not for authoritarianism. |
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