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A Research on the Impact of Emotional Leadership on Employee Innovation Performance——The Role of Psychological Capital and Employee Tradition

Received: 1 July 2022     Accepted: 5 October 2022     Published: 11 October 2022
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This article is about the impact of emotional leadership on employee innovation performance. Emotional leadership is a major contributor to employee innovation performance. However it is much neglected in the research and plannig activities of employee innovation performance. The thesis makes an attempt to build a theoretical research models between emotional leadership, psychological capital, employee tradition and employee innovation performance. Based on the theory of social exchange and the theory of social information processing, this paper uses 444“employee-leader”data as a survey sample to explore and verify the logical relationship between emotional leadership, psychological capital, employee tradition and employee innovation performance by using hierarchical regression analysis. It is found that emotional leadeship can positively predict the employee innovation performance. It can have a positive impact on the employee innovation performance through the mediating role of psychological capital and the moderating role of emplyee tradition. In addition to positively regulating the direct impact of emotional leadership on employee innovation performance, employee tradition can also positively regulate the intermediary effect of employees' psychological capital in the process of emotional leadership's role in their innovation performance. The outcome of this research is to provide a new perspective for Chinese enterprises to improve the epmloyee innovation performance.

Published in Science Innovation (Volume 10, Issue 5)
DOI 10.11648/j.si.20221005.14
Page(s) 166-173
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Keywords

Theory of Social Exchange, Theory of Social Information Processing, Emotional Leadership, Employee Innovation Performance, Psychological Capital, Employee Tradition

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  • School of Economics and Management, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China

  • School of Economics and Management, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China

  • School of Economics and Management, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China

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