The Mechanisms of Paradoxical Leadership and Team Viability on Team Innovation: An Integrated Model in the Chinese Context

Abstract

Abstract:

Teams' leap development is inseparable from innovation, so team innovation has become a key focus of team management re-searches.Data is collected from 397 dyads of employees and their immediate supervisors in 85 Chinese teams.Based on social learning theory, prosocial motivation theory and team process theory, a mediated moderating model is constructed from the perspective of team process.We use multi-level linear regression method to investigate the effect of paradoxical leadership on team innovation, especially we examine the mediating effect of team viability and the moderating role of task interdependence and team cognitive flexibility.Results re-veal that:paradoxical leadership has a significant positive influence on team innovation;team viability fully mediates the relationship be-tween paradoxical leadership and team innovation;task interdependence significantly moderates the positive relationships between para-doxical leadership and team viability as well as team innovation such that they are stronger for team high rather than low in task interde-pendence, while team viability mediates the main effect of paradoxical leadership and the interactive effect of paradoxical leadership and task interdependence on team innovation;team cognitive flexibility moderates the positive relationship between paradoxical leadership and team innovation such that it is stronger among high team cognitive flexibility than among low ones.Finally, the theoretical and managerial implications of the findings are discussed.

Key words: paradoxical leadership, team viability, team task interdependence, team cognitive flexibility, team innovation

Luo Jinlian, Hu Wen'an, Zhong Jing. The Mechanisms of Paradoxical Leadership and Team Viability on Team Innovation: An Integrated Model in the Chinese Context[J]. , 2017, 29(7): 122-134.

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