Employee creativity; empowering leadership and trust in leaders

ABSTRACT :Creativity is the basis of innovation that refers to the intellectual thought process to create newideas, ideas, processes, and products by individuals who work together and provide benefits to the organisation.The purpose of this study was conducted to determine the role and influence of empowering leadership on trustin leaders, and creativity of banking employees in East Kalimantan and North Kalimantan, Indonesia. Thesample in this study amounted to 637 banking employees with the analysis method used was SEM. The resultsshowed that empowering leadership, and trust in leaders had a significant positive effect on employee creativity.It is expected that creativity is able to influence the formation of employee character to do something differentfrom others which will affect the company’s image.

KEYWORDS: Empowering leadership; Trust in leaders; creativity