Authentic Leaders

The results from this research can be helpful for managers and organizations to recognize how to enhance employee's creativity through authentic leadership as our findings reveal that employees' creative behavior is linked to team leaders' authenticity. A leader must know himself in terms of his own strengths and weaknesses in order to understand that how it effects his followers and sub-ordinates. It also suggests that organizations which aspire to increase employee creativity should focus on selecting leaders with authentic features and put into practice appropriate training activities that aim to increase leader's authenticity. Organizations can support managers in achieving more authentic style so that they can affect the employees' creativity. Different methods which may include multisource feedback, the use of role playing, and arranging leaderless group discussions can increase leaders self-awareness and it will help them to take a deep insight into their employees point of view, and it will eventually make them extra authentic in their leadership style.

Managers should pay attention to promote the work engagement and psychological empowerment of their employees through different HR practices. Work engagement and psychological empowerment should be measured through different surveys often to scrutinize their level of engagement and empowerment.