Empowering leadership, uncertainty avoidance, trust, and employee creativity: Interaction effects and a mediating mechanism

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 150-164

  Zhang, Xiaomeng ^a   Zhou, Jing ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creative self efficacy; Creativity; Empowering leadership; Trust; Uncertainty avoidance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898818977     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2014.02.002     Document Type: Article

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