20.500.12556/RUL-148312 Fueling the creative spark how authentic leadership and LMX foster employees' proactive orientation and creativity Creativity is a critical determinant of organizations' abilities to compete and perform in rapidly changing and complex contexts. Though scholars have identified several contextual factors, such as leadership, that motivate employees' creative performance, the psychological mechanisms and boundary conditions underpinning this relationship are relatively unknown. Drawing on social exchange theory, we propose that a proactive orientation, a psychological state rooted in the cognitive and behavioral process of setting a proactive goal and striving to achieve it, is a critical mechanism linking authentic leadership to employees' creativity. Across two field studies of working professionals in Central Europe and the U.S., we show how authentic leadership fuels employees' creative performance through a proactive orientation and introduce leader–member exchange (LMX) as an important moderator of this mediated relationship. In Study 1, using a sample of European manufacturing employees, we find support for the mediating role of a proactive orientation linking authentic leadership to creative performance, above, and beyond the effects of ethical leadership. In Study 2, using a sample of university staff, we replicate this finding and extend it by highlighting the moderating role of LMX on the authentic leadership-proactive orientation relationship. organization leadership company performance proactive orientation authentic leadership creative performance creativity leader–member exchange LMX social exchange theory organizacija vodenje poslovanje podjetja true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2023-08-11 12:32:00 2023-08-11 12:40:06 2025-08-08 13:22:31 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 Str. 356–374 iss. 3 Vol. 30 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 005.3 1548-0518 10.1177/15480518231180064 154793219 Fueling_the_Creative_Spark_How_Authentic_Leadership_and_LMX_Foster_Employees’_Proactive_Orientation_and_Creativity.pdf Fueling_the_Creative_Spark_How_Authentic_Leadership_and_LMX_Foster_Employees’_Proactive_Orientation_and_Creativity.pdf 1 EE43C9F72C53432FECAFFB4762B6CACD 73882cb2b4318b704031ee108ec2b64309457d0e489e21edbe2ea8b11a6b5f61 24260056-3833-11ee-b9d7-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=172419 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15480518231180064 0 291ffdf2-3833-11ee-b9d7-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=172420 Ekonomska fakulteta 0 0 0