The impact of the Leader-Member exchange on innovation behavior: psychological empowerment as a mediator and emotional intelligence as a moderator

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10.2991/hsmet-19.2019.50How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Leader-Member Exchange; Innovation Behavior; Psychological Empowerment; Emotional Intelligence.

Abstract

Based on the theory of Leader-Member exchange, this paper explores the influence of Leader-Member Exchange on innovation behavior, especially the mediating role of psychological empowerment and the moderating role of emotional intelligence. By 247 bank employees of paired questionnaire survey and the results show that:(1) there was a significant positive correlation between Leader-Member exchange and innovation behavior; (2) psychological empowerment played a part of mediating role between Leader-Member exchange and innovation behavior; (3)emotional intelligence positively moderated the mediating mechanism of Leader-Member exchange on innovation behavior through psychological empowerment, namely, the higher emotional intelligence, the stronger the positive impact of Leader-Member exchange on innovation behavior through psychological empowerment.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Guangya Ma
AU  - Po-Chien Chang
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - The impact of the Leader-Member exchange on innovation behavior: psychological empowerment as a mediator and emotional intelligence as a moderator
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Humanities Science, Management and Education Technology (HSMET 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 282
EP  - 288
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/hsmet-19.2019.50
DO  - 10.2991/hsmet-19.2019.50
ID  - Ma2019/07
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