TITLE:
Upstream, Fault Tolerance Innovative: Research on the Influence of Inclusive Leadership on Employee Innovative Behavior
AUTHORS:
Jianhong Tao, Zhiyan Yang, Yaya Liu
KEYWORDS:
Inclusive Leadership, Employee Resilience, Prosocial Motivation, Innovative Behavior
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Leadership,
Vol.11 No.3,
July
29,
2022
ABSTRACT: How to help enterprises develop “upstream” and improve employee
innovative behavior has become an important challenge faced by leaders. For
researchers, their innovative behavior comes not only from their own internal
drive, but also from the climate of inclusive leadership. In the face of
dynamic and complex environment, employee resilience to “going
upstream” is particularly precious. Therefore, based on self-determination
theory and dynamic ability theory, this paper discusses the influence of
inclusive leadership on innovative behavior through employee resilience and the
moderation of prosocial motivation. Through the analysis and processing of 398
effective questionnaires of leader-employee matching in 20 Chinese science and
technology enterprises, the results show that inclusive leadership has a
significant positive impact on employee innovative behavior; employee resilience
plays a mediating role in the effects of inclusive leadership on employee
innovative behavior; prosocial motivation can moderate the indirect effect of
inclusive leadership on employee resilience, and further moderates the
intermediary role of employee resilience. The research conclusion reveals the
“black box” of the effects of inclusive leadership on employee innovative
behavior, and it provides suggestions on strengthening the inclusiveness of leadership, improving employee resilience and how to manage employees with different levels of
prosocial motivation.