Innovation Management in the Public Sector: How Leaders Oversee Employees’ Innovative Work Behaviour?

Wan Noor Azreen Wan Mohamad Nordin and Nurul Liyana Mohd Kamil ()
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Wan Noor Azreen Wan Mohamad Nordin: Faculty of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaya
Nurul Liyana Mohd Kamil: Faculty of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaya

A chapter in Corporate Management Ecosystem in Emerging Economies, 2023, pp 127-146 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The study’s goal is to undertake a multilevel analysis of the association between leadership styles—transformational and transactional—and employees’ innovative work behaviour, while taking job autonomy into account as a buffering mechanism. Data from 269 managing officers from 27 organisations in Malaysia’s public sector were analysed via hierarchical linear modelling. The findings corroborate the self-determination theory by indicating how both leadership styles have a significant impact on innovative work behaviour. Neither transactional leadership nor transformational leadership, however, significantly increased employee job autonomy. The degree of job autonomy that mediates the interaction between leadership and innovative work behaviour is minimal. The research outcomes potentially add to the body of knowledge in organisational behaviour about how the public sector stimulates innovative thinking among its employees.

Keywords: Innovation management; Transformational leadership; Transactional leadership; Job autonomy; Public sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-41578-4_8

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