The Empowerment Bridge: Assessing the Role of Employee Empowerment in Transmitting the Impact of Servant and Transformational Leadership on Creativity and Team Innovation

Abstract

Creativity and innovation is the most needed attributes of any organization as only these respective characteristics can ensure a long term growth and glory of a firm. Such behaviours can easily be obtained through transformational and servant leadership as both the above mentioned styles care for the growth of employee with a sense of empowerment. This study is also aimed to find out the impact of servant and transformational leadership on employee creativity and team innovation respectively in the mediating role of employee empowerment. The sample of respondents was collected from telecom sector of Pakistan as 265 employees take part in survey through simple random sampling. The results have predicted that both servant leadership and transformational leadership have significant influence on employee creativity and team innovation respectively. Empowerment is also found a strong mediator in this regard. This study is significant as it is testing some unrevealed relations by putting servant leadership and empowerment in a model of creativity and innovation.

Key Words: Employee Creativity, Team Innovation, Servant Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Empowerment and Telecom Sector of Pakistan