The Impact of Transformational Leadership on Employee Innovative Behavior: Psychological Safety as a Mediator

The Impact of Transformational Leadership on Employee Innovative Behavior:

Psychological Safety as a Mediator

Wu You Cao Ting

(School of Digital Intelligence and Management, Guangzhou Xinhua University, 510520, Guangzhou China)

Abstract:Against the backdrop of innovation-driven development, stimulating employees' innovativebehavior has become a critical issue in organizational management. Grounded in social exchangetheory, this study incorporates psychological safety as a mediating mechanism and constructs atheoretical model elucidating the effect of transformational leadership on employee innovativebehavior. Data were collected through questionnaire surveys from a sample of 304 enterpriseemployees. Hierarchical regression analysis was conducted using SPSS and AMOS, and the mediatingeffect was empirically examined via the Bootstrap method. The results indicate that: (1)transformational leadership exerts a significant positive effect on employee innovative behavior(B=0.755, p<0.001); and (2) psychological safety plays a partial mediating role in this relationship.accounting for 17.75% of the total effect. This study uncovers the underlying psychologicalmechanism through which transformational leadership influences employee innovative behavior,thereby providing empirical evidence for optimizing managerial practices and fostering employee innovation in organizations.

Keywords: Transformational Leadership; Employee Innovative Behavior; Psychological Safety;Social Exchange Theory

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