The Role of Authentic Leadership in Promote Employee's Enthusiasm and Creativity

Immutability and application of other societies’ technology and ideas without generation of novel ideas and models corresponding to the country’s local conditions will only lead to scientific، cultural and economic dependency. In fact، creativity performance is a function of individual and implicit social factors، and one of the most relevant implicit factors is leadership. In this research، authentic leadership with four dimensions as self-awareness، balanced processing، relational transparency، and internal moral perspective is empirically introduced as a key behavioral model for improvement of employees’ enthusiasm for working and subsequently creativity performance boom in organization. Present research is a field study of descriptive-correlation type and the data of which is gathered using a questionnaire distributed in a sample of 176 managers، experts and workers selected by random cluster sampling method. The data were analyzed using correlation and regression tests including Pearson Correlation Coefficient، Structural Model and Factorial Analysis by aid of SPSS and LISREL. The results indicate that the mediating variable employees’ enthusiasm exercises a relatively full impact on the relationship of authentic leadership with creativity، and authentic leadership by influencing the employees’ enthusiasm for working can play a significant role in promotion of creativity.