Research on the Impact of Transformational Leadership on Employees' Digital Creativity
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https://doi.org/10.63313/FPM.9009Keywords:
Transformational Leadership, Employee Creativity, Digital Creativity, Digital Ex-ploration, Digital ExploitationAbstract
With the advent of the digital era, the operation and management modes of enterprises have undergone fundamental changes. As an effective leadership style, transformational leadership exerts a significant impact on employees' digital creativity. Based on transformational leadership theory, this paper explores how direct managers can enhance employees' innovative self-efficacy by demonstrating transformational leadership behaviors in the context of digital technology application, thereby improving employees' creativity in the digital field. Furthermore, this paper introduces organizational learning theory to the individual level and investigates the mediating mechanism of two modes of digital technology learning—digital exploration and digital exploitation—between transformational leadership and employees' digital creativity.
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