企业、团队的创新都依赖于企业和团队中员工的创新能力,对员工创新能力的研究是企业、团队创新理论的基础。以往对员工创新能力的研究关注变革型领导对员工行为的影响,认为变革型领导积极地鼓励与支持员工创新能力的发展,而对交易型领导,学者们认为会阻碍员工的创新,因此没有予以太多关注。在本文中。基于内在一外在动机理论,我们认为交易型领导行为也会积极支持员工创新能力的发展。同时,依据Bass的领导理论,我们进一步验证了变革型领导与交易型领导的结合,即二者的交互作用,是最有效的领导方式,能够促进员工创新能力的提升和发展。数据结果部分支持了假设。
Innovation of the organization and team depends on the creativity of members in the organization and team. Employee creativity is the base of innovation theory of organization and team. Prior studies focused on the effects of transformational leadership on employee behaviors, in which transformational leadership positively encourages and supports employee creativity. However, scholars did not pay much attention on transactional leadership because of its diminishing effect on employee creativity. In contrast to traditional views, according to the intrinsic-extrinsic motivation theory, we propose that transactional leadership also supports the development of employee creativity. Meanwhile, basing on Bass's leadership theory and management practice, we test that the interaction of transformational leadership and transactional leadership was the most effective leadership style, which supports the improvement and development of employee creativity. The results partly supported our hypotheses.