Participative leadership and its impact on employee innovative behavior through employee voice in tourism SMEs: The moderating role of job autonomy

IF 3 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-08-11 DOI:10.1177/14673584221119371

A. Elsetouhi, Ahmed Mohamed Elbaz, Mohammad Soliman

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This paper investigates how participative leadership and employee voice behavior stimulate innovative behavior, through the moderating role of job autonomy within the SMEs context. Responses from 547 frontline employees at Egyptian travel agents were collected. Using variance-based structural equation modeling (VB-SEM), the results revealed that participative leadership significantly influenced both employees’ voice behavior and their innovative behavior. The findings also indicated that employee voice behavior has an intervening role between participative leadership and workers’ innovative behavior in travel agents. In addition, participative leadership has higher effects on both employee voice behavior and employee innovative behavior with high levels of job autonomy. Finally, employee voice behavior exercises a stronger effect on the innovation of travel agents’ employees with greater levels of job autonomy. Besides theoretical contributions, managerial implications for tourism SMEs managers and practitioners, limitations, and further research directions were all presented.

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旅游中小企业参与式领导及其对员工创新行为的影响:工作自主性的调节作用

本文通过中小企业工作自主性的调节作用，研究了参与式领导和员工建言对创新行为的促进作用。调查收集了547名埃及旅行社一线员工的反馈。运用基于方差的结构方程模型(VB-SEM)分析发现，参与式领导对员工建言和创新行为均有显著影响。研究结果还表明，旅行社员工建言在参与式领导与员工创新行为之间具有中介作用。此外，在工作自主性较高的情况下，参与式领导对员工建言和员工创新行为都有较高的影响。最后，员工建言对工作自主程度较高的旅行社员工创新的影响更大。除了理论贡献外，本文还提出了对旅游中小企业管理者和从业人员的管理启示、局限性和进一步的研究方向。

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Tourism and Hospitality Research HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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