Reinforcing model of feeling of energy, empowerment and employee's creativity through ethical leadership

Background and aimsManagers who rely on ethical values, have considerable effects on employee's feeling of energy, empowerment and creativity. Ethical leadership which is a relative new construct, has considerable role in creating healthy work climate. In this regard, this research was administered with the aim of investigating the role of ethical leadership on reinforcing feeling of energy, empowerment and employee's creativity.MethodsResearch statistical population were the total of Haier factory employees in autumn of 1388. Among them, 332 persons as the research sample were selected with the use of stratified sampling (from personnel's list of each section). Research instruments which used for assessment of variables including feeling of energy at work with 8 items, creativity at work with 9 items, psychological empowerment with 12 items and ethical leadership with 6 items. Data were analyzed using Pearson's correlation coefficient, structure equation modeling and mediating regression analysis.ResultsResults showed that ethical leadership directly reinforces empowerment and energy at work and feeling of energy at work also reinforces empowerment. But in a process analysis, feeling of energy and psychological empowerment after being reinforced through ethical leadership, reinforce employee's creativity at work.ConclusionThe evidences of this research revealed the role of leaders and manager's tendencies to ethical leadership on feeling of energy at work, psychological empowerment and employee's creativity at work. On the basis of the findings, for reinforcing employee's vitality, empowerment and creativity, supervisors and manager's should be complied with ethical leadership principles in their management