Critical factors for innovative work behaviour in Latin American firms: Test of an exploratory model

The aim of this study is to examine how transformational and transactional leaders, boost the employees’ innovative work behaviour, directly or through work engagement, organizational climate for innovation and absorptive capacity in Latin American firms. A non-random sample of 1429 employees was us...

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Autores principales:	Francoise Contreras, Fernando Juarez, Yonni Angel Cuero Acosta, Utz Dornberger, Karla Soria-Barreto, Martha Corrales-Estrada, Claudia Ramos-Garza, Sebastian Steizel, Alexandra Portalanza, Kety Jauregui, Luciana Iwashita da Silva, Marcus Alexandre Yshikawa Salusse
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Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Group 2020
Materias:	innovative work behaviour transformational leadership transactional leadership employee work engagement organizational climate for innovation absorptive capacity latin american culture Business HF5001-6182 Management. Industrial management HD28-70
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:85fd512ea5ca4c589f9c5646b2ad0b8c2021-12-02T14:41:54ZCritical factors for innovative work behaviour in Latin American firms: Test of an exploratory model2331-197510.1080/23311975.2020.1812926https://doaj.org/article/85fd512ea5ca4c589f9c5646b2ad0b8c2020-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311975.2020.1812926https://doaj.org/toc/2331-1975The aim of this study is to examine how transformational and transactional leaders, boost the employees’ innovative work behaviour, directly or through work engagement, organizational climate for innovation and absorptive capacity in Latin American firms. A non-random sample of 1429 employees was used who had been working at least one year in the current company. The sample, composed of workers from different industries, was collected in postgraduate programs of business schools from seven Latin American countries. A multi-group structural equation model was built with the involved variables, which adopted two different conditions: i.e., unconstrained and constrained questionnaire measurement weights. According to the results, leadership by itself is insufficient to promote employees innovative work behaviour. Transformational and transactional leadership exert effect on this behaviour only through absorptive capacity and work engagement respectively. Likewise, absorptive capacity and employee work engagement show direct effects on innovative work behaviour. Additionally, organizational climate for innovation shows a significant moderating effect on the all relationships included in the model. Despite the cultural differences, the two-condition model yielded the same effect in each country, which indicates the validity of a general model of innovative work behaviour for the whole region supporting the common identity of this region. As a conclusion, leadership practices are needed to encourage innovative work behaviour within the Latin American organizational context, however some individual (engagement) and organizational (absorptive capacity) conditions are also needed to ensure this effect. Implications for human resources management are discussed.Francoise ContrerasFernando JuarezYonni Angel Cuero AcostaUtz DornbergerKarla Soria-BarretoMartha Corrales-EstradaClaudia Ramos-GarzaSebastian SteizelAlexandra PortalanzaKety JaureguiLuciana Iwashita da SilvaMarcus Alexandre Yshikawa SalusseTaylor & Francis Grouparticleinnovative work behaviourtransformational leadershiptransactional leadershipemployee work engagementorganizational climate for innovationabsorptive capacitylatin american cultureBusinessHF5001-6182Management. Industrial managementHD28-70ENCogent Business & Management, Vol 7, Iss 1 (2020)
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topic	innovative work behaviour transformational leadership transactional leadership employee work engagement organizational climate for innovation absorptive capacity latin american culture Business HF5001-6182 Management. Industrial management HD28-70
spellingShingle	innovative work behaviour transformational leadership transactional leadership employee work engagement organizational climate for innovation absorptive capacity latin american culture Business HF5001-6182 Management. Industrial management HD28-70 Francoise Contreras Fernando Juarez Yonni Angel Cuero Acosta Utz Dornberger Karla Soria-Barreto Martha Corrales-Estrada Claudia Ramos-Garza Sebastian Steizel Alexandra Portalanza Kety Jauregui Luciana Iwashita da Silva Marcus Alexandre Yshikawa Salusse Critical factors for innovative work behaviour in Latin American firms: Test of an exploratory model
description	The aim of this study is to examine how transformational and transactional leaders, boost the employees’ innovative work behaviour, directly or through work engagement, organizational climate for innovation and absorptive capacity in Latin American firms. A non-random sample of 1429 employees was used who had been working at least one year in the current company. The sample, composed of workers from different industries, was collected in postgraduate programs of business schools from seven Latin American countries. A multi-group structural equation model was built with the involved variables, which adopted two different conditions: i.e., unconstrained and constrained questionnaire measurement weights. According to the results, leadership by itself is insufficient to promote employees innovative work behaviour. Transformational and transactional leadership exert effect on this behaviour only through absorptive capacity and work engagement respectively. Likewise, absorptive capacity and employee work engagement show direct effects on innovative work behaviour. Additionally, organizational climate for innovation shows a significant moderating effect on the all relationships included in the model. Despite the cultural differences, the two-condition model yielded the same effect in each country, which indicates the validity of a general model of innovative work behaviour for the whole region supporting the common identity of this region. As a conclusion, leadership practices are needed to encourage innovative work behaviour within the Latin American organizational context, however some individual (engagement) and organizational (absorptive capacity) conditions are also needed to ensure this effect. Implications for human resources management are discussed.
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author	Francoise Contreras Fernando Juarez Yonni Angel Cuero Acosta Utz Dornberger Karla Soria-Barreto Martha Corrales-Estrada Claudia Ramos-Garza Sebastian Steizel Alexandra Portalanza Kety Jauregui Luciana Iwashita da Silva Marcus Alexandre Yshikawa Salusse
author_facet	Francoise Contreras Fernando Juarez Yonni Angel Cuero Acosta Utz Dornberger Karla Soria-Barreto Martha Corrales-Estrada Claudia Ramos-Garza Sebastian Steizel Alexandra Portalanza Kety Jauregui Luciana Iwashita da Silva Marcus Alexandre Yshikawa Salusse
author_sort	Francoise Contreras
title	Critical factors for innovative work behaviour in Latin American firms: Test of an exploratory model
title_short	Critical factors for innovative work behaviour in Latin American firms: Test of an exploratory model
title_full	Critical factors for innovative work behaviour in Latin American firms: Test of an exploratory model
title_fullStr	Critical factors for innovative work behaviour in Latin American firms: Test of an exploratory model
title_full_unstemmed	Critical factors for innovative work behaviour in Latin American firms: Test of an exploratory model
title_sort	critical factors for innovative work behaviour in latin american firms: test of an exploratory model
publisher	Taylor & Francis Group
publishDate	2020
url	https://doaj.org/article/85fd512ea5ca4c589f9c5646b2ad0b8c
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Critical factors for innovative work behaviour in Latin American firms: Test of an exploratory model

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