Impact Of Humble Leadership On Employee Creativity

In a rapidly developing and changing business environment,market is full of uncertainty,and the survival and development of an enterprise need continuous innovation or creation.From the creative idea of individual employees and teams comes the creativity of the whole company.According to the interactive perspective of creativity research,employee creativity is affected by both individual characteristics and situational factors.Improving the creativity of employees is a complex and dynamic process.As the leader of the actual power and resources in the enterprise,how to enhance the innovation ability of the enterprise and stimulate the creativity of the employees is crucial for the sustainable development and competitive advantage of enterprises.In the face of an market full of uncertainty and competition,the senior management should figure out what should they do in the adjustment of leadership style so as to promote the creative output of employees? This is an important issue that needs to be considered and studied in recent years in terms of the development needs and management practices of enterprises.This study is based on the creativity component theory and resource preservation theory.From the perspective of employee,this study builds a theoretical research model of the interrelationship between humble leadership and the creativity of employee,with the willingness to take risks and information exchange as intermediary variable and the creative self-efficacy as regulated variable.In order to adjust the variables,a moderated intermediary model of information exchange by humble leadership is constructed.Through a review of a large number of research literature at home and abroad in recent years,relevant research hypotheses are proposed,including the direct effect of humble leadership on employee creativity,and mediating effect of humble leadership to the willingness to take risks and information exchange,respectively,which can further affect employee creativity and the impact of creative self-efficacy on the humble leadership,which in return affects the willingness to take risks and information exchange.In the argumentation of the research hypothesis,this study conducts empirical test through questionnaire survey,in which paper or electronic questionnaires are distributed to enterprise employees and 260 copies of them are collected.Therefore,this study is based on a wide range of samples.In addition,Software package SPSS25.0 is used to analyze samples collected,thus the sample data are of reliability and validity.In the end,the research hypothesis is verified through descriptive statistical analysis,regression analysis and Bootstrap results test.The results demonstrate that humble leadership has a significantly positive impact on employee creativity;humble leadership propels employee creativity to a certain extent through the willingness to take risks and information exchange;when creative self-efficacy is at a high level,the positive influence of humble leadership on information exchange rises too;when creative self-efficacy is at a lower level,the positive influence of humble leadership on information exchange weakens instead.Based on the above research,in order to strength the positive impact of humble leadership on employee creativity,this study proposes the following recommendations: company scientifically selects and cultivates leaders with modesty,it should establish an innovation-oriented incentive system and relevant mechanism at the psychological level;a sound and effective mechanism for mutual learning and exchange should be improved;the creative self-efficacy of employees should be enhanced through effective management methods,as the result of which employee creativity is also stimulated.It is hoped that this study can provide some reference for academic research and management practice.