How leadership emotional intelligence promotes team innovation: parallel mediating roles of psychological safety and knowledge sharing

This study examines how leadership emotional intelligence drives team innovation through two distinct mechanisms. Using multilevel structural equation modeling with data from 65 leaders and 391 team members, we reveal that emotionally intelligent leaders influence innovation through both psychological security and knowledge sharing, though with markedly different strengths. Psychological security—the sense that team members can voice ideas without fear—emerges as the primary mechanism, substanti