Self-Leadership and Psychological Capital as Mediators in the Influence of Leader Motivating Language on Everyday Innovative Behavior

IF 3.1 3区经济学 Q2 BUSINESS International Journal of Business Communication Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI:10.1177/23294884221119453

Wei Su, Juhee Hahn

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Innovation is critical to the growth and prosperity of an organization. In daily work, everyday innovation is more often developed by employees than large-scale institutional innovation. This research builds a multi-level framework to investigate how leader motivating language (LML) influences the everyday innovative behavior of employees in the international freight forwarding industry. In addition, we examined the mediating effect of individual-level self-leadership and psychological capital (PsyCap). We used HLM6.8 to perform hierarchical linear modeling on 551 valid questionnaires from 88 teams. The results showed that: (1) LML was a positive predictor of employees’ innovative behaviors, (2) LML positively affects employees’ self-leadership and PsyCap, and (3) self-leadership and PsyCap partially mediated the relationship between LML and employees’ innovative behaviors. We also used Mplus8.3 to conduct a multi-level path analysis to verify the robustness of the results. Further, we investigated the sequential mediation effects of self-leadership and PsyCap between LML and innovative behavior. These findings complement existing research and emphasize the importance of motivational language in organizational management.

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领导者激励语言对日常创新行为影响中的自我领导和心理资本中介

创新对于一个组织的成长和繁荣至关重要。在日常工作中，日常创新往往是由员工进行的，而不是大规模的制度创新。本研究建立了一个多层次的框架来研究领导者激励语言（LML）如何影响国际货运代理行业员工的日常创新行为。此外，我们还考察了个体层面的自我领导和心理资本（PsyCap）的中介作用。我们使用HLM6.8对来自88个团队的551份有效问卷进行了分层线性建模。结果表明：（1）LML是员工创新行为的正预测因子；（2）LML对员工的自我领导和心理资本有正向影响；（3）自我领导和精神资本对LML与员工创新行为之间的关系有部分中介作用。我们还使用Mplus8.3进行了多级路径分析，以验证结果的稳健性。此外，我们还研究了自我领导和心理资本在LML和创新行为之间的顺序中介效应。这些发现补充了现有的研究，并强调了激励语言在组织管理中的重要性。

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Business Communication (IJBC) publishes manuscripts that contribute to knowledge and theory of business communication as a distinct, multifaceted field approached through the administrative disciplines, the liberal arts, and the social sciences. Accordingly, IJBC seeks manuscripts that address all areas of business communication including but not limited to business composition/technical writing, information systems, international business communication, management communication, and organizational and corporate communication. In addition, IJBC welcomes submissions concerning the role of written, verbal, nonverbal and electronic communication in the creation, maintenance, and performance of profit and not for profit business.