African Journal of
Business Management

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Bus. Manage.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8233
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJBM
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 4187

Full Length Research Paper

Employee innovation, supervisory leadership, organizational justice, and organizational culture in Taiwan’s manufacturing industry

Chih-Yang Chao, Yong-Shun Lin, Yu-Lin Cheng* and Yi-Chiao Tseng
Department of Industrial Education and Technology, National Chunghua University of Education, Bao-Shan Campus, No.2, Shi-Da Road, Changhua City, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 15 December 2010
  •  Published: 18 March 2011

Abstract

 

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of the supervisor leadership on employee innovative behavior in manufacturing industry, the interference of the organizational justice in the relation between supervisor leadership, employee innovative behavior, and the interference of organizational culture in the relation between supervisor leadership and employee innovative behavior. Finding of the research is that there is a positive influence of supervisor leadership on employee innovative behavior in manufacturing industry; in addition, the organizational justice of the manufacturing personnel can reinforce the part of influence of supervisor leadership on employee innovative behavior, and organizational culture could also reinforce part of the influence of supervisor leadership on employee innovative behavior as well. According to the results above, the industry should emphasize the system of supervisor leadership and the organizational justice, and construct good organizational culture to encourage innovative behavior of employees.

 

Key words: Supervisor leadership, innovative behavior, organizational justice, organizational culture.