Based on the social exchange theory, the aim of this study is to investigate the direct and indirect influence of ethical leadership on employee innovative work behavior, examining the intervening role of individual variables such as thriving at work and attitudes towards performing well in this relationship. The data was collected using self-reporting survey questionnaires by using a multi-source and cross-sectional study design with service sector employees from two different samples: the U.K. and Pakistan. The findings supported the hypothesized model, where direct and dual mediation were tested. The results extend our understanding as to how positive attitude and psychological states together create positive feelings in employees and enhance their capacity for creative thinking and implementations of new ideas.

Thriving at the workplace is a positive mental regime in which persons feel “a sense of vitality and learning”. This research is an effort to examine the process implicating the relation between workaholism and thriving at the workplace. By applying a mediation method, it verified the mediating outcome of employee involvement climate on the relation among workaholism and thriving at the workplace. Using PROCESS macro by Hayes on a sample of 202 employees from a private organizational sector such as banking. The observed results have been carved out by survey questionnaire via convenience sampling method. Findings show full mediation among all the relationships. The study describes the findings and provides different understandings on the worker's thriving at the workspace.