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How leaders influence employees' innovative behaviour

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  • Jeroen P.J. de Jong
  • Deanne N. Den Hartog

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Purpose - To provide an inventory of leader behaviours likely to enhance employees' innovative behaviour, including idea generation and application behaviour. Design/methodology/approach - Based on a combination of literature research and in‐depth interviews, the paper explores leadership behaviours that stimulate employees' idea generation and application behaviour. The study was carried out in knowledge‐intensive service firms (e.g. consultants, researchers, engineers). Findings - It was found that there were 13 relevant leadership behaviours. Although innovative behaviour is crucial in such firms, it has received very little attention from researchers. Leaders influence employees' innovative behaviour both through their deliberate actions aiming to stimulate idea generation and application as well as by their more general, daily behaviour. Research limitations/implications - Future quantitative research could condense our overview of leader practices, explore which practices are most relevant to employees' idea generation and/or application behaviour, which contingency factors influence the leadership‐innovative behaviour connection and provide information as to whether different practices are relevant in other types of firms. Originality/value - Neither the innovation nor the leadership field provides a detailed overview of specific behaviours that leaders might use to stimulate innovation by individual employees. This paper fills that void.

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  • Jeroen P.J. de Jong & Deanne N. Den Hartog, 2007. "How leaders influence employees' innovative behaviour," European Journal of Innovation Management, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 10(1), pages 41-64, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:ejimpp:14601060710720546
    DOI: 10.1108/14601060710720546
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