Investigating the Effect of Leadership Styles on The Innovation Climate and Creativity of Employees with The Moderating Role of Creative Self-Efficacy and The Mediating Role of Trust andIndividual Identity

Identifying and exploiting existing opportunities is the basis for creating and promoting employee creativity and requires appropriate prerequisites. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of leadership styles on the innovation climate and its impact on employee creativity with the moderating role of creative self-efficacy and the mediating role of trust and personal identity of the General Directorate of Information Technology of the Tax Administration.This is an applied and descriptive-correlational research. The statistical population includes managers and employees of the General Department of Information Technology of the Tax Administration, from which 138 were selected by simple random sampling. The data collection tool is a researcher-made questionnaire. To test the hypotheses, structural equation modeling was performed with the partial least squares approach using SmartPLS software. All hypotheses were confirmed except the hypotheses related to trust and creative self-efficacy. Also, by using transformational and interactive leadership styles as well as identifying employees, innovation can be created in the organization and thus employee creativity indicators will be improved.