How to Improve the Team Innovation Performance by Means of a Double Approach: Innovative Leadership and Innovation-Oriented Human Resource Management Practices

Abstract

Innovative leadership and innovation oriented human resource management practices (HRMPs) are soft and hard measures, respectively, that promote team innovation performance (TIP). This study is based on human capital theory, integrating the leadership process model and the content-process-results framework of HRM (HRM-CPO), and using data from 259 teams and 1,278 employees in leader subordinate pairs. Results show that team human capital (THC) is an important mediator in explaining the impact of introducing innovation-oriented practices on TIP. In addition, innovative leadership can improve THC by increasing the level of implemented innovation-oriented HRMPs, thereby affecting TIP. The study extends the level at which HRMPs and leadership behaviors work together and responds to the call for integration of two major research fields of HRM and leadership behavior.

Keywords

innovative leadership / innovation-oriented HRMPs / innovation performance / human capital / leadership process model

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