<![CDATA[Employees’ experimentation skills are essential for organizational adaptation and continuous improvement. However, existing research on entrepreneurial leadership has primarily examined broader innovative work behavior, leaving experimentation skills relatively underexplored as a distinct employee capability. This study investigates the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and employees’ experimentation skills in a state-owned postal and logistics enterprise. Data were collected from 334 employees through a cross-sectional survey conducted in 2024 and analyzed using covariance-based structural equation modeling (CB-SEM). The measurement model demonstrated satisfactory convergent validity, reliability, and discriminant validity. The findings revealed a strong positive association between entrepreneurial leadership and employees’ experimentation skills (standardized β = 0.720, p < 0.001), with entrepreneurial leadership accounting for 51.84% of the variance in experimentation skills (R² = 0.5184). The structural model demonstrated favorable approximate fit (CMIN/DF = 1.926, RMSEA = 0.053, CFI = 0.990, TLI = 0.985), although the chi-square test remained significant (p = 0.009). By examining experimentation skills as a distinct innovation-related capability, this study extends entrepreneurial leadership research beyond conventional measures of innovative work behavior. The findings highlight the relevance of entrepreneurial leadership to employee experimentation in state-owned service organizations, while the cross-sectional and self-reported nature of the data limits causal interpretation.]]>
