Title: Examining the role of paternalistic leadership and employee voice towards employee creativity with moderating role of openness to experience

Authors: Meriam Amamou; Mohammad Ali Yousef Yamin

Addresses: Human Resources Management Department, Faculty of Business, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Department of Management, University of Sousse, High Institute of Management, Tunisia ' Human Resources Management Department, Faculty of Business, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to ascertain factors which influence employee creativity and innovative work behaviour with the help of paternalistic leadership style, trust in leadership, employee motivation to learn and employee voice. Aside of direct relationship, openness to experience is studied as moderating variable between employee creativity and innovative work behaviour. Data were analysed with structural equation modelling (SEM). Findings of this research revealed that moral leadership, benevolent leadership, authoritarian leadership, motivation to learn, trust in leadership and employee voice explained 53.6% variance in employee creativity. Therefore, the innovative work behaviour was measured with employee creativity and openness to experience and showed 54.5% variance in innovative work behaviour. The effect size analysis f² indicates that moral leadership has substantial effect size to predict employee creativity. This study concludes that employee creativity, moral leadership, openness to experience, benevolent leadership and motivation to learn are essential factors for managerial consideration.

Keywords: paternalistic leadership style; motivation to learn; employee voice; openness to experience; OTE; moderation; structural equation modelling; SEM.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBEX.2024.136879

International Journal of Business Excellence, 2024 Vol.32 No.2, pp.125 - 147

Received: 29 Sep 2020
Accepted: 13 Jan 2021
Published online: 26 Feb 2024 *

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