Empowering Leadership, Psychological Empowerment and Employees’ Creativity: A gender perspective
Prior research has shown that employees’ creativity can contribute to the organizational effectiveness, innovation, and survival, and as that it represents an important concept to study. Not surprisingly, there has been an increasing interest in understanding factors that promote employees’ creativity, and one of the persistent factors is empowerment. The present study investigates whether empowering leadership and psychological empowerment positively influence employees’ creativity in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition, it explores whether there is a moderating effect of psychological empowerment on the relationship between empowering leadership and employees’ creativity. Finally, this study examines whether there is a difference between female and male employees in empowering leadership and psychological empowerment. Field survey data collected from different companies indicates that empowering leadership and psychological empowerment are positively related to employees’ creativity, while psychological empowerment has no moderating effect. Gender differences are present only regarding empowering leadership.