The Effects of Empowerment Role Identity and Creative Role Identity on Servant Leadership and Employees’ Innovation Implementation Behavior

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether both empowerment role identity and creative role identity moderate the relationship between servant leadership and innovation implementation behavior. Data were collected from 6 private eye hospitals in Turkey. The sample included 393 office employees and their immediate managers. The obtained data from the questionnaires are analyzed through the SPSS statistical packaged software. Moderated hierarchical regression was used to examine the moderating roles of empowerment role identity and creative role identity on the servant leadership and innovation implementation behavior relationship. The results show that servant leadership is positively and significantly correlated with innovation implementation behavior. In addition, the results of the hierarchical multiple regression analyses support the moderating effects of empowerment role identity and creative role identity with regard to the relationship between servant leadership and innovation implementation behavior.