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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2020.18.6.177

The Impact of Emotional Leadership on Employees' Creativity: The Mediation Effect of Organizational Trust and Intrinsic Motivation  

Jeong, Jeeyeon (ICT Management Dankook University)
Seo, Jeongeun (Business and Technology Management, KAIST)
Roh, Taewoo (Department of International Trade and Commerce, Soonchunhyang University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.18, no.6, 2020 , pp. 177-185 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze the mediation effect of organizational trust and intrinsic motivation in the relationship between emotional leadership and creativity, suggesting the importance of organizational creativity. Therefore, this study conducted a survey for employees who are working at Korean ICT firms, analyzed the relationship with 241 valid samples, and verified hypotheses using PLS-SEM. The results are as follows. First, emotional leadership had a positive effect on organizational trust. Second, organizational trust had a positive effect on the intrinsic motivation of employees. Third, intrinsic motivation had a positive impact on employees' creativity. Fourth, the organizational trust did not have a positive effect on the creativity of employees. By verifying the mediation effects of organizational trust and intrinsic motivation, this study analyzed the relationship between emotional leadership and creativity, expanding the existing studies of the leadership.
Keywords
ICT; Emotional Leadership; Employees' Organizational Trust; Employees' Intrinsic Motivation; Employee' Creativity;
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