领导促进聚焦行为能诱发下属即兴创新吗?——考虑替代因素干预的视角

摘要/Abstract

摘要： 在VUCA时代，通过诱发一线创新人员即兴行为来创造性地解决各种突发问题和技术难题，已成为企业及时响应市场变化的重要战略选择。然而，当前即兴研究多集中在团队以上层面，对创新团队如何实时地诱发成员即兴创新行为尚缺少系统性的探究。基于调节焦点理论与领导替代理论的整合视角，尝试理解团队领导促进聚焦行为对下属即兴创新的影响过程机制，包括组织规范化和领导认同这对替代因素的四种干预情境。通过对211对创新团队的领导—成员配对数据分析发现：领导促进聚焦行为示范通过下属情境促进型调节焦点来诱发下属即兴创新；领导认同能强化领导促进聚焦行为示范的积极效应，而组织规范化则可能逆转这种积极效应；领导认同能有效缓解组织规范化的逆转效应。基于双因素的四种干预情境分析，本文系统阐释了领导促进聚焦行为示范能否诱发下属即兴创新这一问题，并揭示了多种效用差异，对组织因地制宜地诱发下属即兴创新具有一定的指导意义。

关键词: 即兴创新, 领导促进聚焦行为示范, 情境促进型调节焦点, 组织规范化程度, 领导认同

Abstract: In the VUCA era, it has become an important strategic choice for enterprises to timely respond to market changes by inducing improvisational behaviors in front-line innovators to creatively solve various emergent problems and technical challenges. However, current improvisation researches largely focuses on the above-team level, and there is a lack of systematic exploration on how to induce improvisational innovation in innovation team members in real time. By integrating regulatory focus theory and substitutes for leadership theory, this study aims to elucidate the process by which a team leader's promotion-focused behavioral modeling affects subordinates' improvisational innovation, specifically in four intervention contexts consisting of two substitute factors: formalization and identification with the leader. The analysis of data from 211 leader-member pairs of innovation teams reveals that (1) leader's promotion-focused behavioral modeling induces subordinates' improvisational innovation through their situational promotion focus; (2) subordinates' identification with the leader enhances the positive effect of leader's promotion-focused behavioral modeling, while formalization reverses this positive effect; (3) subordinates' identification with the leader could effectively mitigate the counter effect of formalization. Based on the analysis of the four intervention contexts, this paper systematically explains whether leader's promotion-focused behavioral modeling can induce improvisational innovation in subordinates and uncovers a variety of effect differences. The findings have implications for organizations to stimulate improvisational innovation in employees according to local conditions.

Key words: improvisational innovation, leader's promotion-focused behavioral modeling, situational promotion focus, formalization, identification with the leader

熊立, 柳波, 年鹏翔. 领导促进聚焦行为能诱发下属即兴创新吗?——考虑替代因素干预的视角[J]. 管理评论, 2023, 35(12): 203-216.

Xiong Li, Liu Bo, Nian Pengxiang. Can Leader’s Promotion-focused Behavioral Modeling Induce Subordinate’s Improvisational Innovation? Considering the Intervention of Substitute Factors[J]. Management Review, 2023, 35(12): 203-216.

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