| dc.description.abstract | In recent years, due to the turbulence in international situations and the impact of pandemic changes, businesses are operating in a dynamic, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment. Particularly during periods of drastic changes and economic recession, the market becomes more challenging, making it difficult for businesses to predict future ambiguities. Moreover, the current organizational emphasis on team-oriented work characteristics has led to highly interdependent work patterns among team members. When faced with a vague and uncertain work environment, individuals may experience role ambiguity due to a lack of clarity and predictability in role functions and job responsibilities, thereby affecting individual and organizational performance as well as innovation capability. In today′s competitive market environment, organizations must possess innovation capabilities to maintain their competitive advantage. Employee innovation behavior is one of the key factors influencing organizational innovation capabilities. However, employee innovation behavior is influenced by various factors.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of supervisor′s paradoxical leadership behavior on employee innovation and further explore the mediating and moderating roles of task complexity and ambiguity tolerance in this relationship.
After validating the hypotheses in this study, the following results were obtained:
1) Ambiguity tolerance mediates the relationship between supervisor′s paradoxical leadership behavior and employee innovation.
2) Task complexity moderates the relationship between supervisor′s paradoxical leadership behavior and ambiguity tolerance.
3) Task complexity serves as a moderated mediator in the relationships among supervisor′s paradoxical leadership behavior, ambiguity tolerance, and employee innovation.
When the supervisor′s paradoxical leadership behavior is stronger, and subordinates exhibit higher ambiguity tolerance, the positive relationship between supervisor′s paradoxical leadership behavior and subordinates′ ambiguity tolerance becomes stronger. Additionally, as task complexity increases, the supervisor′s paradoxical leadership behavior enhances subordinates′ tolerance for task ambiguity, thereby stimulating the generation of innovative behavior. The theoretical and practical management implications will also be discussed in this study. | en_US |