Lei Xinghui, Liu Wei, Su Taoyong, Shan Zhiwen
School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
School of Business Administration and Customs Affairs, Shanghai Customs College, Shanghai, China.
Front Psychol. 2022 Apr 18;13:726708. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.726708. eCollection 2022.
The current study proposes a moderated mediation model to explain the relationship between humble leadership and team innovation. Our hypothesis integrates social information processing (SIP) theory with the existing literature on humble leadership. As a result, we theorize that when a humble individual leads a team, the team members are more likely to reconsider strategies, review events with self-awareness, share diverse information, and adapt to new ideas, which in turn promotes innovative team activities. Moreover, consistent with the research that emphasizes the inclusion of team culture in exploring leader-innovation relationships, we investigate the moderating role of a team's expertise diversity in the above positive, indirect relationship. We test our model by using both archival and survey data collected from 135 teams within 18 medium-to-large internet technology firms in China. The findings largely support our theoretical assertions, suggesting that humble leadership has important implications for team processes and innovation.
本研究提出了一个有调节的中介模型来解释谦逊型领导与团队创新之间的关系。我们的假设将社会信息加工（SIP）理论与关于谦逊型领导的现有文献相结合。因此，我们提出理论，即当一个谦逊的人领导一个团队时，团队成员更有可能重新考虑策略、带着自我意识审视事件、分享多样化的信息并适应新想法，这反过来又促进了团队的创新活动。此外，与强调在探索领导与创新关系时纳入团队文化的研究一致，我们考察了团队专业知识多样性在上述正向间接关系中的调节作用。我们通过使用从中国18家中大型互联网技术公司的135个团队收集的档案数据和调查数据来检验我们的模型。研究结果在很大程度上支持了我们的理论主张，表明谦逊型领导对团队过程和创新具有重要意义。
