The Mediating Effect of Creative Self-Efficacy on the Relation between Empowering Leadership and Organizational Innovation

Authors

  • Majed Alameri
  • Ali Ameen
  • Gamal S. A. Khalifa
  • Ibrahim Alrajawy
  • Amiya Bhaumik

Abstract

The field of organizational behavior has seen an expanding enthusiasm for understanding elements that advance employee creativity; the development of new and valuable thoughts concerning items, administrations, procedures, and systems in associations. In this study, the main objective is to examine the direct and indirect impact of empowering leadership through the mediating effect of creative self-efficacy on the organizational innovation within police sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The questionnaire was utilized in this study to collect data from the population of police sector in the UAE by using probability random sampling. Structural Equation Modeling-Variance Based (SEM-VB) was utilized to examine the research model in this research, by using the Smart PLS 3.0 software. The result from the analysis shed lights on the impact of empowering leadership on organizational innovation. Moreover, the impact of creative self-efficacy on the organizational innovation. Empowering leadership had a positive direct effect on the OI within the police sector in the UAE. Moreover, creative self-efficacy mediates the relation between empowering leadership and the innovation of organization. The results of the current study have the potential to give further insights into the innovation of organizations strategies.

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2019-12-10

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