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

Arab Economic and Business Journal Pub Date : 2016-12-01 DOI:10.1016/j.aebj.2016.06.001

Tayyaba Akram , Shen Lei , Muhammad Jamal Haider

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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.

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关系型领导对中国IT行业员工创新工作行为的影响

本研究旨在探讨关系型领导对中国信息技术产业员工创新工作行为三个不同阶段的影响。本文还研究了关系型领导对总EIWB的总体影响。研究结果表明，关系型领导对企业创新行为具有正向影响。为了验证这些假设，我们使用了一份自我管理的问卷来找出来自一家IT公司的261名员工的反应。相关分析和回归分析表明，关系型领导对员工创新工作行为的三个阶段都有显著影响。其对EIWB的整体影响在我们的分析中也非常突出。研究结果表明，关系领导作为一种强有力的激励工具，可以帮助员工在EIWB的创意产生、创意促进和创意实现三个阶段描述创新工作行为。进一步讨论了本研究的意义和局限性。

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