Improving Employee In-Role and Extra Role Performance with Ethical Leadership: As Meditating Role of Employee Creativity

Abstract

The main purpose of this study looks at how ethical leadership, employee creativity, emotional intelligence and their effects on in-role and extra role work performance in company settings. It aims to offer understanding about how ethical leadership techniques can affect employee productivity and imagination. It also looks at the impact of emotional intelligence on this process. The study uses a design that looks at different groups, and it gathers information using numbers. We pick 240 people from different jobs in Pakistan. We use a method called stratified random sampling to do this. Surveys are used to collect information about ethical leadership, doing your job and more than expected work. They also look at employee ideas and understanding feelings in a better way. The data analyzed using SPSS. The research shows that ethical leadership greatly affects how well people do their jobs and go beyond them. Team creativity helps a lot with the relation between good leadership and how well they do. Also, emotional smartness changes how ethical leadership affects employee's creativity. Higher levels of this factor make the relation even stronger. This study has some limits. They are using a design that only looks at one point in time, which makes it hard to show cause and effect. Long-term studies can help future research. The study looks closely at one specific culture. We need to think about whether its results can be applied to other cultures too. The study gives helpful tips for companies to grow good leaders, promote employee ideas and build feelings smartness in the office. Starting training programs, giving feedback and encouraging ethical leadership at all levels of a company can improve how employees perform.