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The impact of relational leadership on employee innovative work behavior in IT industry of China

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: This study is an attempt to investigate the effect of relational leadership (RL) on the three different stages of employee innovative work behavior (EIWB) in information technology industry of China. It also investigates the overall effect of relational leadership on total EIWB. It was proposed that relational leadership effects EWIB positively. For testing the hypotheses, a self-administered questionnaire was used to find out what are the responses of 261 employees from an IT company. Correlation and regression analysis suggested that relational leadership affects all three stages of employee innovative work behavior in significant manner. Its overall effect on EIWB is also very prominent in our analysis. The results of this study suggest that relational leadership, being a powerful motivational tool, helps employees to depict innovative work behavior at each of idea generation, idea promotion and idea realization stages of EIWB. The implications and limitations of the study are further discussed.

Source: Arab Economic and Business Journal

DOI: 10.1016/j.aebj.2016.06.001

Authors: Tayyaba Akram, Shen Lei, Muhammad Jamal Haider

Institutions: Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, Donghua University

Language: English

Topic: Employee Performance and Leadership

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2589935698

FWCI: 11.02

Cites: 42

Cited by: 100

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