International Journal of Research Studies in Management
CollabWritive Special Issue
2024 Volume 12 Issue 12
Available Online: 1 September 2024
Author/s:
Yan, Li
Graduate School, Lyceum of the Philippines University – Batangas, Philippines
Abstract:
China’s economy has entered the fire-new “innovation-driven” stage, which makes the enterprises’ development face risks and opportunities. As the central impetus for corporate advancement, innovation can furnish a continuous flow of energy for the ongoing sustainable growth of businesses. The new generation employees have emerged as the dominant force within the professional environment, and they not only show a dynamic creative spirit in the workplace, but also challenge the existing rules and managers because of their “publicized” personality and behavior. When the concept of “inclusive development” was formally put forward at the 2011 Boao Forum for Asia Conference, the theoretical and practical circles have keenly realized that “inclusive leadership” may be an effective means to “tolerate” conflicts and stimulate the creativity of the new generation of employees. Due to the complexity and subtlety of employee creativity management, it is necessary to deeply explore the internal mechanism of inclusive leadership on the creativity of the new generation of employees in the context of Chinese culture. Inclusive leadership style can make employees feel the real meaning of work, thus promoting the improvement of employees’ sense of self-efficacy. When employees achieve certain work achievements and have certain work influence, their work autonomy will be significantly improved. At the same time, inclusive leadership emphasizes psychological empowerment, which is essentially a multiple mechanism of action in which all dimensions of inclusive leadership and psychological empowerment are arranged and combined. When employees feel the inclusive style of leadership, their psychological empowerment level will be significantly improved, thus stimulating employees’ creativity. Therefore, this study takes the new generation of employees as the research object. Based on the self-determination theory, inclusive leadership style, psychological empowerment and employee creativity are incorporated into the model at the same time to study the mechanism of action. On the basis of theoretical deduction and field investigation, an empirical analysis is conducted on 413 valid questionnaires. Finally, it verifies the mechanism of inclusive leadership style on the creativity of the new generation of employees and draws the following conclusions: First, the creativity of the new generation of employees is significantly stronger than that of women; Second, inclusive leadership style can significantly enhance the creativity of the new generation of employees; Third, inclusive leadership style can prompt the new generation of employees’ psychological empowerment level.; Fourth, psychological empowerment and its dimensions can significantly enhance the creativity of the new generation of employees. Finally, based on the research conclusions, the author suggests that local enterprises should adopt a more inclusive leadership style to treat subordinates in future management practices. When employees perceive the inclusiveness of leaders, their psychological empowerment level will be significantly improved, thus stimulating employees’ creative potential and creating more benefits for the enterprise.
Keywords: inclusive leadership, psychological empowerment, employee innovative behavior, productivity improvement framework
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrsm.2024.1266
Cite this article:
Yan, L. (2024). Inclusive leadership, psychological empowerment and innovative behavior: Basis for improve employee performance framework. International Journal of Research Studies in Management, 12(12), 59-70. https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrsm.2024.1266