| The theory of territorial behavior in organizational management is an emerging theory continuously constructed and perfected by many scholars in the past 15 years.Employee guarding,which is a special branch of territorial behaviors,is expressed by leaders regarding subordinates as territorial resources.Its theoretical basis comes from the theory of territorial behavior,but its causes and effects are different from previous studies.When focusing on the specific situation of employee guarding,there are many different characteristics comparing to organizational territory theories.Specifically,there are the legitimacy of the behavior,human subjective initiative,the divergence of strategies,the ambiguity of boundaries,the applicability of basic theories and the difference of observers.Many differences with the traditional territorial behavior research show that there are still a lot of theoretical problems that need to be solved through empirical research to verify its effectiveness in organizational management.Organizational innovation has always been the forefront and core issue in the research of organizational management.In the past,innovation capacity was seen as a broad and unified concept that reflects the generation of novel and useful ideas,processes,or procedures.With the continuous development of innovation theory research,the single and universal concept can no longer satisfy the research of organizational innovation.Under the strategic requirements of the innovation era,the theoretical research of organizational innovation at the individual,team and leader levels need to be further promoted systematically.Based on the shortcomings of the existing research,this study by exploring the leader-subordinates territorial behaviors on organization innovation mechanism,verify the effectiveness of the leader-subordinates territorial behaviors theory,providing the perspectives of extended leader to subordinate territorial behavior theory,and apply the emerging theory to innovation theory and practice,and enrich the related research of organization innovation.The theoretical significance of this study lies in opening the theoretical perspective of leadership influence on organizational management,enriching its influence mechanism on organizational innovation,revealing the influence mechanism of leader-subordinates territorial behaviors on organizational innovation,and providing theoretical guidance for organizational innovation practice.Specifically,this study discusses the mechanism of leader-subordinates territorial behaviors on organizational innovation through three levels:Firstly,Sub-study 1 took the perceived leader’s territorial behaviors by employees as the independent variable to explore the influence mechanism on employee proactive innovation behaviors at the individual level.By collecting 567 sample data from 31 enterprises,polynomial regression and response surface analysis were used.The study found that the territory behavior and congruence of persuasion and nurturing can have differentiated effects on active innovation.The low persuasion and high nurturing territorial strategies combination can stimulate active innovation and provide higher support of organizational innovation.The higher the congruence of persuasion and nurturing,the stronger the positive impact on the perceived organizational innovation support,and the perceived organizational innovation support plays a mediating role between territorial behavior and proactive innovation.Employees’ sense of uncertainty plays a moderating role between perceived organizational innovation support and active innovation.The lower the sense of uncertainty,the stronger the impact of innovation support on active innovation.Secondly,The sub-study 2 took the team-perceived leader-subordinates territorial behaviors as the independent variable and discussed the influence mechanism on team innovation at the team level.The direct effects of territorial behavior and team innovation,as well as the intermediary effects of knowledge sharing,job embeddedness,and team identity.The results were tested through 329 samples from 52 teams.The study found that persuasion had a direct negative impact on team innovation,reducing knowledge sharing and increase job embeddedness,with no significant impact on team identity.Knowledge sharing and work embedding play a mediating role between persuasion behaviors and team innovation.Nurturing behaviors have a direct positive impact on team innovation and will increase knowledge sharing,job embeddedness,and team identity.Knowledge sharing,job embeddedness and team identity mediate the relationship between nurturing behaviors and team innovation.Thirdly,Sub-study 3 takes the leaders’ territorial behaviors as the independent variable and discusses the influence mechanism on innovative leadership at the leader level.The direct effects of territorial behaviors and innovative leadership,as well as the mediation effect of organizational psychological ownership and the moderating effect of creative role identity,were tested through data from 329 samples from 52 teams.It was found that persuasion had a negative impact on innovative leadership,while nurturing behaviors had a positive impact on innovative leadership.Both persuasion and nurturing behaviors have a positive impact on organizational psychological ownership,and organizational psychological ownership plays an mediating role between territorial behaviors and innovative leadership.Innovative role identity moderates the main effect of territorial behaviors and innovative leadership.The higher the innovative role identity,the stronger the negative influence of persuasion behavior on innovative leadership,and the stronger the positive influence of nurturing behaviors on innovative leaders.Based on the above research,this thesis forms the following conclusions: First,at the individual level,the combination of strategies for leaders’ territorial behaviors will have a differentiated impact on employee innovation,and maintaining the congruence of persuasion and nurturing behaviors is helpful to promote employees’ proactive innovation behaviors.Reducing employees’ sense of uncertainty can better translate perceived organizational innovation support into innovation motivation.Second,at the team and leadership level,the influence of persuasion and nurturing strategies is multiplex.Nurturing behaviors will promote organizational innovation at the team and leadership level.While persuasion behavior can increase the job embeddedness of employees and the organizational psychological ownership of leadership,its overall impact on organizational innovation is negative.In general,leaders need to combine their territorial behavior strategies to subordinates in the management of organizational innovation process to promote the innovation ability of individual employees and teams;managers themselves need to be aware of the impact of their seemingly unrelated daily behaviors on their leadership to ensure the effective organizational innovation management.The main innovations of this article are:Firstly,In the three sub studies of this paper,the thesis discussed the influence of the leader-subordinates territorial behaviors on organizational innovation through multi dimensions and perspectives.By proposing the congruence of persuasion and nurturing behaviors,team-level territorial behaviors and leader’s territorial behaviors,we enriches the research method of the leader-subordinates territorial behaviors,and discusses the influence mechanism of the organization innovation.Secondly,the thesis discussed the influence mechanism of territory behavior on organization innovation: this study to organization support theory,identity theory,resource preservation theory,JD-R model,discussed the leader-subordinates territorial behaviors through organization innovation support,team identity,organization psychological ownership,providing a possible theoretical explanation for the emerging theory,enrich the leader-subordinates territorial behaviors black box mechanism empirical research.Thirdly,Enrich the boundary of territory behavior and organization innovation research: this research in the analyzed of subordinate territory behavior and organization innovation behavior influence mechanism,discussing the moderating role of uncertainty,leaders’ creativity role identity through the empirical research,verifying the organization innovation support and proactive innovation behaviors,team innovation and innovative leadership,enriched the boundary of territory behaviors and organization innovation research.Fourth,the paper discussed the antecedents of innovative leadership: innovative leadership as a special leadership style is oriented by leaders’ own creative work and management ability.Guide to individual factors and the influence of daily management behavior.Through discussing the impact of innovative leadership antecedent variables and mechanism between leader-subordinates territorial behaviors,this study enriches the theory of both territorial behaviors and innovative leadership. |
