Can innovative behavior be led by management? A study from the lodging business

Huimin Gu, Philippe Duverger and Larry Yu

Tourism Management, 2017, vol. 63, issue C, 144-157

Abstract: This study examined the effects of hotel management leadership on employee innovative behavior in Chinese hotel organizations. Using a dyadic sample of 164 hotel supervisors and 603 service employees at 23 four-star and five-star hotels in 11 Chinese cities, we investigated whether organizational commitment mediated the effects of leadership on employee innovative behavior. We also examined how organizational tenure moderated leadership and innovative behavior through organizational commitment. Findings from our moderated-mediation model revealed that organizational commitment mediated the relationship between leadership and innovative behavior. Similarly, organizational tenure moderated the relationship between leadership and organizational commitment: there was a stronger relationship for long-tenured employees and a weaker relationship for short-tenured employees. However, the effect of higher leadership on organizational commitment was stronger for short-tenured employees than long-tenured employees. Our results spotlight the importance of fostering organizational commitment, which directly affects innovative behavior and through which supervisors can influence individual innovative behavior.

Keywords: Leadership; Innovative behavior; Organizational commitment; Tenure; Moderated mediation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2017.06.010

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