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  1 - The mediating role of emotional exhaustion in the relationship between Machiavellian leadership and employees' creativity
  Reza Sepahvand Mohsen Aref Negad Fariborz Fathi Chegeni
  Context: Organizations need creative and innovative employees to meet the challenges of their environment in order to survive and stay competitive. In the meantime, various factors affect the employees' creativity, including Machiavellian leadership and emotional exhaus More

  Context: Organizations need creative and innovative employees to meet the challenges of their environment in order to survive and stay competitive. In the meantime, various factors affect the employees' creativity, including Machiavellian leadership and emotional exhaustion.Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of emotional exhaustion in the relationship between Machiavellian leadership and employees' creativity at Lorestan University.Research method: The present descriptive-exploratory research is applied in terms of purpose and is based on the deductive research and positivism paradigm in term of philosophy. The statistical population of the study was 440 employees of Lorestan University. Based on Morgan's table, a sample of 205 people was selected by stratified random sampling. In order to measure the variables of the research, the (Dahling et al’s, 2009) Machiavellian leadership Questionnaire, (Wang et al’s, 2013), creativity Questionnaire and the (Maslach & Jackson’s , 1981) emotional exhaustion Questionnaire were used and Their reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha. For data analysis, structural equations modeling and PLS software have been used.Findings: Findings show that Machiavellian leadership has a negative and significant relationship with employees' creativity and a positive and significant relationship with emotional exhaustion, emotional exhaustion has a negative and significant relationship with employees' creativity, also Machiavellian leadership has a significant negative relationship with employees' creativity through emotional exhaustion.Conclusion: The overall results of the study show that Machiavelli leaders by increasing their personal interests over organizational interests and using tools as employees to achieve their goals increase employee stress and emotional fatigue, which in turn reduces employees' creativity. Manuscript profile