TY - JOUR
T1 - How does transformational leadership promote innovation in construction? The mediating role of innovation climate and the multilevel moderation role of project requirements
AU - Zhang, Yanchun
AU - Zheng, Junwei
AU - Darko, Amos
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: This study is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71701083, and 71761021), Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province of China (2018JJ2542), Talent Training Foundation of Yunnan Province (KKSY201606041) and Training Project of Humanities and Social Sciences in Kunming University of Science and Technology (skpyyb201721).
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PY - 2018/5/10
Y1 - 2018/5/10
N2 - Innovation plays a critical role in the sustainable development of the construction industry. This research aims at examining transformational leadership's role in shaping employees' innovative behavior by analyzing the mediating effect of innovation climate and the cross-level moderating effect of innovativeness as a project requirement. To achieve this aim, a questionnaire survey was conducted with 300 construction industry professionals in China and 251 valid replies were received. Data collected by the questionnaire were analyzed using the method of hierarchical linear modeling (HLM). The results showed that transformational leaders could nurture a mutual climate for innovation to motivate employees' innovative behaviors. In addition, innovativeness as a project requirement at the project level strengthens the indirect link amongst transformational leadership and innovative behavior via the innovation climate. Therefore, in the presence of higher innovativeness as a project requirement, transformational leadership is more prone to exert a positive influence upon an individual's innovative behavior via the perceived innovation climate. The research findings improve understanding of the roles of leadership and innovation climate in affecting individual behavioral outcomes, and could help project managers and leaders encourage innovative ideas within project organizations.
AB - Innovation plays a critical role in the sustainable development of the construction industry. This research aims at examining transformational leadership's role in shaping employees' innovative behavior by analyzing the mediating effect of innovation climate and the cross-level moderating effect of innovativeness as a project requirement. To achieve this aim, a questionnaire survey was conducted with 300 construction industry professionals in China and 251 valid replies were received. Data collected by the questionnaire were analyzed using the method of hierarchical linear modeling (HLM). The results showed that transformational leaders could nurture a mutual climate for innovation to motivate employees' innovative behaviors. In addition, innovativeness as a project requirement at the project level strengthens the indirect link amongst transformational leadership and innovative behavior via the innovation climate. Therefore, in the presence of higher innovativeness as a project requirement, transformational leadership is more prone to exert a positive influence upon an individual's innovative behavior via the perceived innovation climate. The research findings improve understanding of the roles of leadership and innovation climate in affecting individual behavioral outcomes, and could help project managers and leaders encourage innovative ideas within project organizations.
KW - Construction innovation
KW - Hierarchical linear modeling
KW - Innovation climate
KW - Innovative behavior
KW - Innovativeness as a project requirement
KW - Transformational leadership
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U2 - 10.3390/su10051506
DO - 10.3390/su10051506
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85047016599
SN - 2071-1050
VL - 10
JO - Sustainability (Switzerland)
JF - Sustainability (Switzerland)
IS - 5
M1 - 1506
ER -
