S. Martono, N.A. Wulansari, M. Khoiruddin
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of empowering leadership for the employee creativity through mediating role of motivation to learn, trust in leader, creative self-efficacy, and the moderating role of openness to experience variable. Questionnaire was used as the data collection method. For the sampling technique, it used a multi-stage sampling technique. The number of samples is 220 employees of state-owned banks in the city of Semarang, Indonesia. The data analysis used the Structural Equation Model (SEM) method with WarpPLS 6.0. Result of this research the leader empowerment has a positive effect on motivation to learn, trust in leader, creative self-efficacy and employee creativity. In addition, the results of the study also show that motivation to learn, trust in leader, and creative self-efficacy have a positive impact on employee creativity. The role of motivation to learn, trust in leader and creative self-efficacy is supported to mediate between empowerment on employee creativity. Also, openness to experience variable is supported as a moderation role. © 2020 IOP Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.
Universitas Negeri Semarang, Faculty of Economics, Kampus Sekaran, Gunungpati, Semarang, Indonesia