Research On The Relationship Between Transformational Leadership And Knowledge Workers' Innovative Behavior

At the era of knowledge economy, the knowledge becomes important resource and decisive function in the economic development. The knowledge which is obtained by the enterprises is equal to the competitive advantage. However, with the unceasing absorption and use to the knowledge of competitor, any competitive advantage possibly will be temporary. In this time the enterprises must unceasingly update the knowledge through the innovation. The innovation becomes the main way which enterprises use to keep the competitive advantage, and the inexhaustible motive force of enterprises' growth and development The enterprises who want to occupy the space in the fierce competition must innovate constantly.When the enterprises seek the innovational method, we cannot neglect the function of knowledge workers which are subject in innovation. It is important to stimulate workers' innovation behavior in the enterprises innovative activities. Certainly, depends only on the knowledge workers is not enough. Increasing intensity of competition, coupled with constantly change of market environment, the leaders of enterprises must be able to deal with the change of environment positively, and lead the workers to adapt the change. Only when the leaders and workers exert together, can the enterprise progress unceasingly in the globalized economy. At this moment, what kind of leadership style can stimulate workers' innovation behavior and cause they adapt environmental variation quickly? What was the process and the mechanism leadership style affected to the workers' innovation? These are worth to study in the theorists and the management practice.This research has analyzed the relationship between transformational leadership and knowledge workers' innovative behavior, and discussed the mechanism of the influence transformational leadership on innovative behavior. Based on the previous research of transformational leadership and innovative behavior, this study put forward the research supposition. After the questionnaire survey of enterprises in Anhui and other places, we collect mass primary data, and carry the empirical analysis on the data. The result indicat that the knowledge workers' innovation behavior has positively affected by transformational leadership as well as organizational trust, and the influence transformational leadership on knowledge workers' innovation behavior has produced by the organization trust.The article is divided into five chapters:The first part is an introduction. This section mainly introduces the background, significance of research, method and path, and possible innovations.The second section is overview of literature. This section reviews and combs the literature about transformational leadership, organizational trust, innovation behavior and the relation of these variables.The third section is the design of study. Based on the overview of literature, this section constitutes the framework of research, proposes the hypotheses of research, choices the object of research and the tool of measure, designs questionnaire, inquirise questionnaire.The fourth section is the empirical analysis. According to the survey data, this section examines the letter and the validity of questionnaire, analyses the present situation of transformational leadership, the knowledge workers' innovative behavior and organization trust, discusses the difference of these variables on individual attribute variable, proves the effect transformational leadership and the knowledge workers' innovative behavior, as well as the mediation effect of organizational trustThe fifth section is the conclusion, the suggestion and the outlook. This section makes a general conclusion for this study, puts forward some managing suggestions, finally introduces the limitation of the study, and proposes future prospects in this area.