The nexus between empowering leadership, job engagement and employee creativity: role of creative self-efficacy in the hospitality industry
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine job engagement and creativity of employees in the hospitality industry of Pakistan as outcomes of empowering leadership through the mediating role of creative self-efficacy.
Design/methodology/approach
An electronic survey was conducted to collect data from 373 employees of food-chain restaurants in Pakistan. The data was analyzed by applying structural equation modeling (SEM) through Smart PLS 3.
Findings
Results indicated that empowering leadership has a positive association with job engagement and employee creativity in the hospitality industry. Further, creative self-efficacy has been found as mediating the relationship of empowering leadership with job engagement and employee creativity.
Originality/value
The study has substantial implications for the employees, managers and organizations of the hospitality industry as well as for the scholars of services industry research.
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Acknowledgements
This research study was sponsored by Zhejiang Province social science planning project (No. 22NDJC017Z).
Citation
Peng, M.Y.P., Liang, Z., Fatima, I., Wang, Q. and Rasheed, M.I. (2023), "The nexus between empowering leadership, job engagement and employee creativity: role of creative self-efficacy in the hospitality industry", Kybernetes, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-10-2022-1425
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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