The Study of the Relationship among Inclusive Leadership, Perceived Error Management Climate and Innovative Behavior

Global competition, digital transformation brought about by the 4th industrial revolution, and the global pandemic brought about by the novel coronavirus have made companies adapt to changes and are constantly being asked to innovate. For the innovation of enterprises, the most direct and efficient way is to motivate employees to innovate behavior and innovation ability. Therefore, how to stimulate employees' innovation behavior has always been the focus of many scholars and many research results have been achieved. The purpose of this study is to better understand and analyze the innovative behavior of employees, and to study the structural relationship between inclusive leadership, error management climate, and innovative behavior. Survey questionnaires were distributed to employees working at ten China companies, and responses from 343 employees were collected and used for data analysis. The main findings of this research are as follows: First, inclusive leadership had a significant positive(+) relationship with innovative behavior. Second, inclusive leadership had a significant positive (+) relationship with error management climate. Third,error management climate had a significant positive (+) relationship with innovative behavior. Fourth, error management climate played a mediating role in the relationship between inclusive leadership and innovative behavior. Based on the results of this study, it provides suggestions on what kind of efforts companies should make in the future to lead effective innovative behaviors to organizational members, and these research results can be used as useful data.