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The impact of emotional intelligence, servant leadership, and psychological safety on employee’s innovative behavior with the moderating effect of task interdependence in Lahore, Pakistan

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Our research aims to assess the influence of emotional intelligence, servant leadership, and psychological safety on employees’ innovative behavior, with the help of task interdependence’s moderation effect. A convenience sampling method was employed to gather pertinent information from Lahore, Pakistan’s I.T companies, and 230 questionnaires were considered for the results. Outcomes depict that emotional intelligence positively influences servant leadership. Results also demonstrate that servant leadership influences psychological safety, which further positively affects employees' innovative behavior. Additionally, task interdependence modifies the linkage between psychological safety and imaginative behavior in a favorable and meaningful way. The new study adds to the corpus of information by examining the potential for task dependency to spur employees to take unique actions.

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Munawar, S., Yousaf, H.Q., Ahmed, M. et al. The impact of emotional intelligence, servant leadership, and psychological safety on employee’s innovative behavior with the moderating effect of task interdependence in Lahore, Pakistan. Curr Psychol 43, 8186–8199 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04990-7

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