Ethical Leadership and Employees’ Creativity: The Mediating Role of Organizational Pride
Feb 28, 2024
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Published Online: Feb 28, 2024
Page range: 25 - 40
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fman-2024-0002
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© 2024 Yazan Emnawer Al-Haraisa, published by Sciendo
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Measurement Model Assessment
- | - | Convergent Validity | Internal Consistency Reliability | Discriminant Validity | ||
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Latent Variable | Indicators | Loadings > 0.70 | AVE > 0.50 | Cronbach’s Alpha > 0.70 | Composite Reliability > 0.70 | HTMT Confidence interval does not involve (1) |
Ethical leadership | Q1 | 0.750 | 0.602 | 0.934 | 0.943 | Yes |
Q2 | 0.940 | |||||
Q3 | 0.708 | |||||
Q4 | 0.908 | |||||
Q5 | 0.775 | |||||
Q6 | 0.895 | |||||
Q7 | 0.627 | |||||
Q8 | 0.923 | |||||
Q9 | 0.904 | |||||
Q10 | 0.709 | |||||
Organizational pride | Q11 | 0.737 | 0.674 | 0.944 | 0.953 | Yes |
Q12 | 0.702 | |||||
Q13 | 0.787 | |||||
Q14 | 0.793 | |||||
Q15 | 0.835 | |||||
Q16 | 0.847 | |||||
Q17 | 0.809 | |||||
Employees’ creativity | Q18 | 0.835 | 0.622 | 0.898 | 0.920 | Yes |
Q19 | 0.856 | |||||
Q20 | 0.753 | |||||
Q21 | 0.745 | |||||
Q22 | 0.753 | |||||
Q23 | 0.802 | |||||
Q24 | 0.700 | |||||
Q25 | 0.740 | |||||
Q26 | 0.758 | |||||
Q27 | 0.816 | - | ||||
Q28 | 0.760 |
Mediation test
- | Bootstrapped Confidence Interval | - | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
- | Path a | Path b | Indirect effect | S.E | t-value | 95% LL | 95%UL | Decision |
H4 | 0.946 | 0.626 | 0.318 | 0.126 | 2.524 | 0.071 | 0.565 | Mediation |
Results of hypothesis testing
- | Variables | R2 | R2 Adjusted | B | SD | Sig | Decision | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
H1 | E L → E C | 0.837 | 0.835 | 0.915 | 0.016 | 57.025 | 0.000 | Supported |
H2 | E L→ O P | 0.900 | 0.899 | 0.949 | 0.011 | 83.781 | 0.000 | Supported |
H3 | O P → E C | 0.861 | 0.859 | 0.928 | 0.016 | 58.027 | 0.000 | Supported |
H4 | E L → O P→EC | 0.895 | 0.893 | 0.592 | 0.126 | 4.701 | 0.000 | Supported |
The arithmetic means and standard deviation
Variable | Mean | Standard Deviations | Level |
---|---|---|---|
Ethical leadership | 2.64 | 1.012 | Moderate |
Organizational pride | 2.56 | 1.013 | Moderate |
Employees’ creativity | 2.60 | 1.006 | Moderate |