Knowledge Collection and Employees’ Creativity Under Responsible Leadership: Evidence from Public Higher Education Institutions

Abstract

In this dynamic era of competition, the public sector higher educational institutions must focus on the importance of creative administrative employees. Therefore, this research has focused on determining the factors associated with the creativity of administrative employees in public sector higher educational institutions in Punjab, Pakistan. The data were gathered from administrative employees working at different public sector higher educational institutions in Punjab through an online questionnaire. The results highlighted that the creativity of administrative employees is associated with responsible leadership, which also leads to knowledge collection. Moreover, the complementary partial mediation of the knowledge collection was found in the relationship between responsible leadership and employee creativity.