This study empirically examines the relationship between project’s manager’s leadership style and members innovative behavior. In addition, this paper speculates that leadership- member exchange mediate the association between project’s manager’s leadership style and members innovative behavior of project team.
In order to respond rapidly to market needs and increase profits, the best companies are constantly searching for proven practices that offer a competitive advantage. Several studies have shown that the role of a project manager is critical to project success. Some authors report that employees can help to improve business performance through their ability to generate ideas and use these as building blocks for new and better products, services and work processes. Therefore, we want to examines the relationship between project’s manager’s leadership style and members innovative behavior of project teams.
The data is composed of project team members and is collected by 269 question-naires. project team members were asked about their project manager's leadership style, their levels of leadership- member exchange and innovative behavior. Of all samples, we released a total of 280 questionnaires; of these, eleven employees were unusable because they were incomplete. Completed questionnaires were returned by 269 project team members (96% response rate).
Finally, the results indicate that project’s manager’s leadership style is positively related to members innovative behavior. In addition, the author speculates that leader-ship- member exchange mediate the relation between project’s manager’s leadership style and members innovative behavior as perceived by project team members. However, these hypotheses were not supported by the empirical data. The contribution of this paper has two aspects .The theoretical: the paper can answer the research problem. The practical: this paper can offer insights into project’s manager’s leadership style as to how to enhance the member innovative behavior of the project team.
