Abstract
Employee innovation is the foundation of enterprise innovation. Each knowledge worker should be an innovation unit. This reminds managers that they need to examine their own behaviors and methods in the process of organization and management from the perspective of employees. This study is based on the perspective of social exchange theory. Through the combination of interviews and questionnaire surveys, we have referenced domestic and international scales, and analyzed the paternalistic leadership style, psychological contractual awareness, and employee innovation behavior using statistical methods such as correlation analysis and regression analysis. The relationship between paternalistic leadership and the employee’s innovative behavior was discussed. The results of this study show that: 1) In the unidimensional analysis, there is a positive relationship among benevolent leadership in paternalistic leadership, psychological and psychological perception, and employee innovation behavior; 2) Authoritarian leadership and psychological contract perception, there is a negative correlation between employee innovation behaviors; 3) There is a significant positive relationship between psychological contract perception and employee innovation behavior.
Highlights
Innovation has become the main theme of the developing times
The results of this study show that: 1) In the unidimensional analysis, there is a positive relationship among benevolent leadership in paternalistic leadership, psychological and psychological perception, and employee innovation behavior; 2) Authoritarian leadership and psychological contract perception, there is a negative correlation between employee innovation behaviors; 3) There is a significant positive relationship between psychological contract perception and employee innovation behavior
The paternalistic leadership and employee innovative behavior and psychological contract, the relationship between the perception of paternalistic leadership have a direct bearing on employee innovative behavior, psychological contract perception can indirectly affect the relationship between the two
Summary
Innovation has become the main theme of the developing times. Governments at all levels and all enterprises and institutions are focusing on innovation. Employees naturally become the core of the management and service of the government and enterprises. Current research shows that the leadership ability played an important role in the success of the company. It is important for the company that the employee as the direct subordinate of the leader, the executive of the enterprise management, and the individual employee’s innovation behavior. Martinez and Dorfman found that in Turkey’s corporate researches, employees and business managers formed a warm working atmosphere. This kind of warm working atmosphere is very similar to the family environment. Rousseau and Parks [2] found empirical researches that there are great individualities and specificities in psychological contract, they can be basically classified into two types: transactional psychological contract and relational psychological contract
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