Author(s): Taewoo Roh, Jeeyeon Jeong & Kangmun Lee
This study suggests emotional leadership, team-member exchange, and employee intrinsic motivation as antecedents that can improve employee creativity in an organization. Existing literature on emotional leadership focuses on a leader’s understanding, empathy, and consideration for and deal with factors that can improve organizational performance by improving his/her social awareness. This study attempted to verify through what mechanism the influence of such emotional leadership can improve the employee creativity in ICT companies requiring sophisticated entrepreneurship. Using PLS-SEM (partial least square-structural equation model), the hypothesis was examined with 241 respondents working in the R&D and support departments of ICT companies. As a result, all hypotheses were supported to improve the creativity of employees in ICT companies.