Journal article
How Leadership and Public Service Motivation Enhance Innovative Behavior
Q Miao, A Newman, G Schwarz, B Cooper
Public Administration Review | WILEY | Published : 2018
DOI: 10.1111/puar.12839
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Abstract
Prior research has linked the innovative behavior of public sector employees to desirable outcomes such as improved efficiency and higher public service quality. However, questions regarding the drivers of innovative behavior among employees have received limited attention. This article employs psychological empowerment theory to examine the underlying processes by which entrepreneurial leadership and public service motivation (PSM) shape innovative behavior among civil servants. Based on three-wave data from 281 Chinese civil servants and their 59 department heads, entrepreneurial leadership is found to positively influence subordinates' innovative behavior by enhancing two dimensions of ps..
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Awarded by National Natural Science Foundation of China
Funding Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Tom Christensen, Hanna de Vries, Julian Gould-Williams, Christian Botcher Jacobsen, PAR Editor in Chief James Perry, Eva Sorensen, Montgomery Van Wart, and three anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on earlier versions of this article. This research was funded by the Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71672174 & R17G020002).