Abstract
Drawing from the componential model of the creativity process, this study investigated the mediating effect of employees’ intrinsic motivation, felt obligation and resource crafting behavior in the relationship between empowering leadership and employee creativity as well as the moderating role played by employees’ power distance orientation. Multisource data were collected from 235 members and their direct leaders in China, using a two-wave and time-lagged research design. Our results show that empowering leadership is positively related to employee creativity, employees’ motivation (including intrinsic motivation and felt obligation) and resource crafting behavior sequentially mediated this relationship. Besides, power distance orientation strengthens the relationship between empowering leadership and employees’ felt obligation. The contribution of this study lies in explaining how employee creativity is triggered by empowering leadership as well as its boundary conditions.
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