The Relationship between Leader’s Emotional Intelligence and Employee Creativity: A Conceptual Framework of Mechanism

Abstract

In an environment of digitization and globalization, where the pace with which advancement in technology takes place, has created a mounting pressure on organizations to adapt, change and innovate in order to remain competitive. In the current paper, an integrative conceptual framework linking leader’s emotional intelligence to employee creativity is proposed. Existing literature highlights the need to explore mechanism by which leader’s EI influence creativity. To advance the understanding of relationship between leader’s EI and creativity, we propose psychological climate as a mechanism explaining the path through which leader’s emotional intelligence affects creativity. The framework also presents the significance of leader member exchange in these relationships.