Moderating Effect of Servant Leadership on the Motivation Mechanism of Organizational Innovation Climate Affecting Employees' Innovation Behavior

ZHAO Yan-mei; ZHANG Zheng-tang

Journal of South China normal University (Social Science Edition) > 2020 > (6): 127-141.

ZHAO Yan-mei, ZHANG Zheng-tang. Moderating Effect of Servant Leadership on the Motivation Mechanism of Organizational Innovation Climate Affecting Employees' Innovation Behavior[J]. Journal of South China normal University (Social Science Edition), 2020, (6): 127-141.

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Received Date: January 18, 2020
Available Online: March 21, 2021

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Employee innovative behavior is the basis of enterprise innovation, and creating an organizational innovation climate is a common way for enterprises to promote employee innovation behavior. The empirical results obtained from the first-hand research data show that (1) intrinsic motivation and self-efficacy mediate the effect of organizational innovation climate on employees' innovative behavior separately; (2) servant leadership moderates the relationship between organizational innovation climate and self-efficacy across levels, and the positive effect of organizational innovation climate on self-efficacy is stronger in the context of high servant leadership, but servant leadership has no effect on the relationship between organizational innovation climate and intrinsic motivation; (3) servant leadership also moderates the mediating effect of self-efficacy between organizational innovation climate and individual innovative behavior, and the mediating effect of self-efficacy is stronger in the context of high servant leadership, but the mediating effect of intrinsic motivation cannot be moderated by servant leadership.
- organizational innovation climate,
- servant leadership,
- intrinsic motivation,
- self-efficacy,
- employee innovative behavior

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