Developing Employee Creativity and Antecedents: Driving Sustainability for Business Effectiveness

\nThis study aims to analyze the influence of Ethical Leadership (EL) and Organizational Politics (OP) on Employee Creativity (EC) through Job Satisfaction (JS) as Mediation. The sample used amounted to 180 respondents of SOEs in Indonesia located in East Java. Test the hypothesis in this study using variance-based SEM (structural equation modelling) analysis or partial least squares using the SmartPLS V.4.0.9.8 software application. The results showed that Ethical Leadership has a positive effect on Job Satisfaction and Employee Creativity. Organizational politics have no effect on job satisfaction and employee creativity. Job Satisfaction positively affects employee creativity. Job Satisfaction can mediate the positive relationship of Ethical Leadership with employee creativity. Job satisfaction cannot mediate organizational politics with employee creativity. This research implications the importance of building ethical leadership that encourages job satisfaction and employee creativity so as to encourage business competitiveness.\n