This study sought to provide a more comprehensive understanding of how authentic leadership can affect employees’ individual creativity through affective commitment’s mediating role. The sample included 177 leader–follower dyads from 26 private, small- and medium-sized enterprises. Followers reported their levels of affective commitment and perceptions of authentic leadership, and leaders assessed each follower’s level of creativity. The results show that authentic leadership has a positive impact on affective commitment and creativity. Moreover, affective commitment fully mediates the relationship between perceived authentic leadership and individual creativity. Organizations can thus increase employees’ affective commitment and creativity by encouraging their managers to adopt more authentic leadership styles. Additional studies with larger samples are needed to determine more clearly not only authentic leadership’s influence on individual creativity but also other psychosocial and personal variables’ effects on that relationship.

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真实领导如何促进个人创造力：情感承诺的中介作用

本研究旨在更全面地了解真实领导如何通过情感承诺的中介作用影响员工的个人创造力。样本包括来自 26 家私营、中小型企业的 177 位领导者和追随者。追随者报告了他们的情感承诺水平和对真实领导的看法，领导者评估了每个追随者的创造力水平。结果表明，真实领导对情感承诺和创造力有积极影响。此外，情感承诺完全中介了感知的真实领导与个人创造力之间的关系。因此，组织可以通过鼓励他们的经理采用更真实的领导风格来提高员工的情感承诺和创造力。