Linking Servant Leadership with Employee Innovative Behavior: The Intervening Role of Leadership Trust
Syed Hidayat Ullah Shah, Fahad Khan Afridi, Sajid Rahman Khattak- General Health Professions
A business's ability to grow and gain a competitive advantage mainly depends on its workforce's inventiveness. However, the connection or processes behind the creative activity of employees and servant leadership (SL) have yet to be the subject of considerable study. This study, grounded on the LMX theory, looks at the correlation between worker creativity and SL from the standpoint of the employee-leadership relationship. It also explores the mediating function of leadership trust. Five hundred workers in Peshawar, Pakistan, provided information. With the data we had gathered, we ran structural equation modeling and hierarchical regression analysis using Amos 24 and SPSS 26.0. The outcome demonstrated that leadership trust was an intervening factor in the positive association between servant leadership and workers' creative endeavors.