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Leader Humility and Team Innovation: Investigating the Substituting Role of Task Interdependence and the Mediating Role of Team Voice Climate

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: Leadership has been found to be linked with team innovation. Based on social information processing theory and substitutes for leadership theory, this paper examines the influence of leader humility on team innovation. Results from 90 teams showed that leader humility will enhance team innovation by fostering team voice climate. Further, task interdependence substitutes the effect of leader humility on team innovation through an indirect way via team voice climate. This study discussed the theoretical and practical implementations of these observations.

Source: Frontiers in Psychology

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01115

Authors: Wenxing Liu, Jianghua Mao, Xiao Chen

Institutions: Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Language: English

Topic: Team Dynamics and Performance

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,801

Funders: National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Social Science Fund of China