Abstract
This study focuses on authentic leadership by department leaders’ as a factor
that enhances organizational creativity, which is essential for the sustainable
growth and development of companies. It examines the possibility that authentic
leadership can be developed through leaders’ cross-border learning and
clarifies how leaders’ authentic leadership acts on organizational creativity. In
this study, a sample of 119 executives and managers obtained from a questionnaire
survey administered to a total of 138 executives and managers working in
Japanese firms is included in the analysis. The following three findings were revealed
through the results of the quantitative survey: First, leaders’ cross-border
learning was positively related to leaders’ authentic leadership. Second, between
“multi-dimensional thinking” which one dimension of authentic leadership and
organizational creativity was significantly positive association. Third, the relationship
between leaders’ cross-border learning and organizational creativity
was partially mediated by “multi-dimensional thinking”. These results suggest
that leaders’ cross-border learning is an effective means of positively influencing
leaders’ authentic leadership and the organizational creativity.
