Linking Leadership Style Perception And Employee Creativity: A Moderated Mediating Effect Model

In today’s complex environment full of uncertainty,companies face increasingly fierce competition.To achieve sustainable competitiveness in the competitive environment,it is necessary for them to constantly innovate.Creativity is the root of innovation.By enhancing employee creativity and effectively promoting innovation and development,the creativity of employees within the company is particularly important.How to improve the creativity of employees,make full use of the wisdom of all employees to enhance the innovation and transformation capabilities of enterprises,and promote long-term sustainable innovation and development of enterprises is becoming a hot topic of academic research.As an important shaper of the organizational environment in which employees generate creativity,leaders’ leadership style is regarded as the essence of completing creative work.Both domestic and foreign research have shown that leadership style has an important impact on employee creativity.Based on the above background,this paper takes enterprise employees as the research object to explore the relationship between leadership style perception and employee creativity,that is,how leadership style perception influences employee creativity.This study draws on the theory of predecessors to drive leadership style perception into the perception of leader’s consideration and the perception of leader’s initiating structure.The paper draws on previous research theories,divides leadership style perception into eader’s consideration and leader’s initiating structure under leadership style,proposes psychological ownership as a mediator in Chinese context,and time availability as a regulatory variable,trying to clarify leadership care and leadership rules under leadership style.The impact mechanism of employee creativity was analyzed by SPSS20.0 and Amos22.0 statistical software.The results show that :(1)the employees’ perception of leader’s high consideration and high initiating structure positively affect psychological ownership;(2)psychological ownership of employees positively affects their creativity;(3)psychological ownership of employees plays a complete intermediary role between leader’s consideration and employee creativity,and plays a part of intermediary role between leader’s initiating structure and employee creativity;(4)time availability has a positive moderating effect on the positive correlation between psychological ownership and employee creativity;(5)the study further verifies the moderated mediating effect,that is,time availability strengthens the mediating effect of psychological ownership on leader’s consideration and employee creativity,and strengthens the mediating effect between leader’s initiating structure and employee creativity.This study not only enriches the theory of employee creativity,but also provides ideas for business management.