The mediating role of the aesthetic experience between transformational leadership and innovation

Youngkeun Choi

Cogent Business & Management, 2019, vol. 6, issue 1, 1662630

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between transformational leadership types and the motivation of software engineers. This study uses full range of leadership as a major theory and investigate how transformational leadership types influence the innovative behaviors of software developers by using a mediator of aesthetic experience. For this, this study surveys 352 software developers working at 35 companies in Korea and analyzes the data using AMOS 24. In the results, first, charisma, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration increase the aesthetic experience of software developers. Second, the aesthetic experience of software developers affects their innovative behaviors positively. Finally, intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration increase the innovative behaviors of software developers through their aesthetic experience. For theoretical contributions, this study has contributed to academic research by producing the empirical evidence to support the theories of leadership and the innovation of software developers and by confirming the applicability of the theory of aesthetic experience in organization research to explain users’ psychological and behavioral reactions to the technological activities. For managerial implications, the managers in software development companies can understand leadership issues for motivating software developers in the perspective of aesthetic experience.

Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23311975.2019.1662630 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:oabmxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:1662630

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://cogentoa.tandfonline.com/journal/OABM20

DOI: 10.1080/23311975.2019.1662630

Access Statistics for this article

Cogent Business & Management is currently edited by Len Tiu Wright and Tahir Nisar

More articles in Cogent Business & Management from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().