从跨文化视角出发,采用横断历史元分析方法,考察近年来领导行为与员工创新领域相关研究结论的总体情况,并分析二者的相关程度在金融危机前后的变化趋势。结果显示:变革型与交易型领导对员工创新都具有显著的正向影响;领导行为与员工创新关系呈现情景差异,东方文化情境下变革型领导对员工创新影响更显著,而在西方情境下交易型领导的效果更强;东方文化情境下,在遭受金融危机或企业面临不确定性较强的情况下,交易型领导对员工创新的影响效果略微上升而变革型领导的作用明显下降。尽管这一结论与西方背景下的研究结果有所不同,但为中国情境下领导行为的选择提供了跨文化的实证依据。
A cross -temporal meta -analysis is applied to analyze the relationship between leadership behavior and employee innovation based on present literatures. The trend of this relationship is also analyzed from the cross - cultural perspective before and after the financial crisis. The result shows that both transformational and transactional leadership have a positive effect on employee innovation and are eontextuaUy delimited; transformational leadership impacts on employee innovation quite significantly in the context of eastern culture, while transactional leadership has a stronger effect in the context of western culture; in the context of eastern culture, the effect of transactional leadership is strengthened while the effect of transformational leadership became weaker after suffering from financial crisis or facing high uncertain case. This result is different from the conclusion based on western cultural context; however it provides the empirical basis for the choice of leadership behavior in Chinese context.