Affective Commitment to Change and Innovation Implementation Behavior: The Role of Charismatic Leadership and Employees’ Trust in Top Management
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This questionnaire-based study investigated the relationship between two aspects of leadership (charismatic leadership and trust in top management) and followers’ innovation implementation behavior. Findings from 194 employees working in R&D teams of a multinational automotive company indicated that charismatic leadership and trust in top management were both positively related to innovation implementation behavior, controlling for followers’ individual differences, management level, and department affiliation. The findings demonstrate that both relationships were mediated by followers’ affective commitment to change. Results implicate the need to more closely bond the concepts of affective commitment to change and innovation implementation behavior and consider their connection in future investigations.
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Transformational leadership may predict employees' reported use of an innovative practice being implemented in their organization.
“For example, transformational leadership (i.e., the degree to which a leader can inspire and motivate others; (Bass & Avolio, 1995) may predict employees’ reported use of an innovative practice being implemented in their organization (Michaelis, Stegmaier, & Sonntag, 2009; Michaelis et al., 2010).”
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- Authors
- Michaelis, B., Stegmaier, R., & Sonntag, K.
- Affiliations
- Heidelberg University (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Michaelis, Björn
- Venue
- Journal of Change Management
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2009-12
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 399-417
- ISSN
- 1469-7017 (ISSN-L)
- 1479-1811
- OpenAlex
- W2048292055
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- 216
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- 8.27
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- journal article
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- en
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- closed
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- Journal of Change Management (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Organizational Change and Leadership
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Organizational Management and Change
- Keywords
- affective commitment to change, charismatic leadership, R&D teams, automotive industry, mediation, organizational change, employee behavior
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