Abstract
Innovation is the key factor to promote agricultural modernization. Employees are the implementers of innovation, and the managers, as the leaders of enterprises, have an important impact on employees’ innovation behavior. This paper takes agricultural science and technology enterprises as the research object, studies the influence of different leadership styles on employees’ innovation behavior, and proposes suggestions to improve the leadership style to promote employees’ innovation behavior, so as to improve the innovation ability of agricultural science and technology enterprises.
Highlights
Innovation is the primary driving force for development and the most effective way to gain market competitiveness and sustainable development [1]
The existing literature has not reached a consistent conclusion on whether the leadership style of enterprises has a positive impact on the innovation ability of employees, considering the particularity of agricultural science and technology enterprises, leaders' care and trust are one of the key factors affecting the technological innovation ability of agricultural science and technology enterprises
Hypothesis 1: There is a positive correlation between contingent reward transactional leadership style and employee innovation behavior
Summary
Innovation is the primary driving force for development and the most effective way to gain market competitiveness and sustainable development [1]. Scientific and technological progress and innovation is the key factor for accelerating agricultural modernization. In 2017, the contribution rate of China's agricultural science and technology progress reached 57.5%. It was still lower than the average level of 70% of developed countries. This is closely related to the innovation behavior of employees in the organization. Employees' innovation behavior is an important part of individual performance, and the foundation of organizational innovation. As one of the organizational situational factors, leadership style plays the role of model and atmosphere builder for employees' innovative behavior. It is of great practical significance to study the relationship between leadership style and employee innovation behavior in agricultural organizations
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