Does Moral Leadership Enhance Employee Creativity? Employee Identification with Leader and Leader–Member Exchange (LMX) in the Chinese Context

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• 作者：Qinxuan Gu ; Thomas Li-Ping Tang ; Wan Jiang
• 关键词：Paternalistic leadership ; Moral leadership ; Identification with leader ; Leader–member exchange (LMX) ; Relational process ; Confucianism ; Employee creativity
• 刊名：Journal of Business Ethics
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：February 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：126
• 期：3
• 页码：513-529
• 全文大小：466 KB
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• 作者单位：Qinxuan Gu (1)
  Thomas Li-Ping Tang (2)
  Wan Jiang (1)
  
  1. Management and Organization Department, Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 535 Fa Hua Zhen Rd, Shanghai, 200052, China
  2. Department of Management and Marketing, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 37132, USA
  
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Philosophy
  Ethics
  Economic Growth
  Management
  Quality of Life Research
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0697

文摘

In this article, drawing from a relational perspective, we explore the relationship between moral leadership and employee creativity, treat employee identification with leader and leader–member exchange (LMX) as two mediators, and develop a new theoretical model of employee creativity. Our data collected from 160 supervisor–subordinate dyads in the People’s Republic of China demonstrate that moral leadership is positively related to both employee identification with leader and LMX. Further, employee identification with leader partially mediates the relationship between moral leadership and LMX. In particular, employee identification with leader greatly enhances LMX which leads to high creativity. Overall, the relationship between moral leadership and employee creativity is mediated by not only employee identification with leader but also LMX. Our findings offer a new theoretical framework for future theory development and testing on creativity as well as practical implications for researchers and managers in business ethics.