The effect of authentic leadership on employees creativity with regard to the mediator role of psychological capital.

Today، creativity and innovation are considered valuable resource in gaining competitive advantage for any organizations. One of vital factor that influences on creativity and innovation and also employee’s psychological capacity is leadership. Thus، the study aimed at investigation of most recent leadership approach entitled with authentic leadership with creativity and mediator role of psychological capital. Statistical population consists of 885 of managers and employees of National Cartographic Center. The data were collected through questionnaire by simple random method and analyzed by SEM. Validity of questionnaire by confirmatory factor analysis and its reliability through Cronbach''s alpha investigated and confirmed. The results of SEM support all hypotheses. Authentic leadership has had a positive significant effect on psychological capital and creativity. Regarding path coefficient these relationship were relatively high. Psychological capital also has had a positive significant and relatively high influence on creativity. In addition، it showed that psychological capital has a partial influence on the relation of authentic leadership and creativity.