Author(s): Nury Ariani Wulansari, Bayu Dwi Warih Kusuma and Whisnu Elianto
The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of transformational leadership and servant leadership on employee creativity with the mediating role of thriving at work. The population of this study is employees of municipal waterworks in Kudus Regency. The sampling technique of this study is saturated sampling and uses questionnaire method for 140 respondents, with SEM analysis method and analyzed by SmartPLS. The result of this study shows that transformational leadership has a positive and significant effect on employee creativity and positive but not significant on thriving at work. Meanwhile, servant leadership has a positive and significant effect on employee creativity and thriving at work. On the other hand, thriving at work has no mediating effect in the relationship of transformational leadership and servant leadership on employee creativity. The findings of this study suggest that it’s important to make creativity and thriving at work as a goal and an achievement so that employees can push themselves toward a better work and career.