The Effect of Digital Transformation Leadership on Innovative Behaviors: The Mediating Effect of Organizational Dynamic Capabilities and Moderation effect of Manager's Coaching Behaviors

This study demonstrates the leadership and capabilities that corporate leaders must possess for the sustainable growth of the organization amidst unprecedented changes in the business environment, such as the 4th Industrial Revolution and digital transformation, which have recently emerged as corporate management issues. To this end, this study targeted 350 employees of domestic IT companies to demonstrate the impact of a leader's digital transformation leadership on employees' innovation behavior, and to determine whether the organization's dynamic capabilities and managers' coaching behavior influence the innovation behavior of organizational members in the digital era. The research results showed that the leader's digital transformation leadership had a positive effect on the innovation behavior of organizational members. In addition, the dynamic capability of the organization had a mediating effect on the leader's digital transformation leadership and the innovation behavior of organizational members, and the leader's managerial coaching behavior had a moderating effect. In particular, the organization's dynamic capabilities and the leader's managerial coaching behavior suggest a new direction of leadership to corporate leaders and managers who must create organizational performance through digital innovation. The significance of this study is that it has been demonstrated that in the future, leaders of organizations in the digital era will need distributed leadership that emphasizes the capabilities of each member of the organization and is based on agile-centered dynamic capabilities, rather than focused leadership that is exercised based on individual characteristics or capabilities.