Transactional Leadership And Followers’ Innovative Behavior: Roles Of Commitment To Change And Organizational Support For Creativity

Abstract

Aim: This study aimed to enrich and bridge the research gap in the extant literature for transactional leadership and followers’ innovative behavior first directly then through mediating role of commitment to change and afterwards moderating role of organizational
support for creativity.

Design/methodology/approach- Questionnaire survey based strategy was adopted to collect the responses from the employees working in startups. Further the collected data was analysed using PLS-SEM.

Findings – Study concluded that transactional leadership style foster innovative behaviour and employee commitment to change. Further, employee commitment to change mediates between transactional leadership style and innovative behaviour. Also, employee commitment to change influences innovative behaviour. Additionally, organizational support for creativity do not moderates the relationship between employee commitment to change and innovative behaviour.

Originality/value- highlights the importance of effectiveness of transactional leadership in Indian startups operating in dynamic environment.