TITLE:
The Influence of Ethical Leadership on Employee Creative and Innovative Behaviour: A Higher-Order Constructs Modelling in PLS-SEM
AUTHORS:
Eleck Shabani Masianoga, Leonard Chakauya
KEYWORDS:
Ethical Leadership, Employee Creative and Innovative Behaviour, High-Order Constructs Modelling, South Africa
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Business and Management,
Vol.11 No.3,
April
28,
2023
ABSTRACT: The study is aimed at investigating the curvilinear
relationship between ethical leadership and employee creative and innovative
behaviour in a South African State Owned Enterprise. The central argument of
this paper is that ethical leadership can influence employee creative and
innovative behaviour in the workplace. One hypothesis was posited and to
empirically test the hypothesis, a sample data set of 160 was used. The data
from 160 respondents comprising managers and employees was collected using
predeveloped questionnaires and analysed through structural equation modelling
and multiple regression techniques conducted with the Smart-PLS statistical
software. The hypothesis was found to be significant and supported. Drawing
from the study findings, managerial implications are discussed, and limitations
and future research directions are suggested. Overall, this study provides
tentative empirical support that employee creative and innovative behaviour can
be influenced by ethical leadership in South Africa: a context that is often less researched.