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Relationships among Leadership, Absorptive Capacity, Psychological Contract and Innovational Behavior ¡X taking the Technology Industry as Examples

Abstract
Innovational behavior is one of the main sources of an organization¡¦s competitive advantage which is verified by many scholars. Peter Drucker¡]1985¡^said that two of the most important issues in knowledge age are knowledge management and innovation. Therefore, organizations have the chance to develop the ability of innovation when they are able to control knowledge. Only with the innovation of product and management skills, hi-tech companies could catch up the changing environment. This study focuses on the relationship between innovative behavior, leadership, absorptive capacity, and psychological contract between units. In the meantime, leadership style contains transactional leadership and transformational leadership; absorptive capacity contains the ability of acquisition, assimilation and exploitation; psychological contract contains transactional, relational and balanced relationship.
The result of the research indicates that:
1. The differences of employees¡¦ gender, marriage and the function of occupation have significant difference on innovative behavior
2. In addition to difference analysis, relationship between transactional leadership, transformational leadership, acquisition ability, assimilation ability, exploitation ability and balanced relationship of psychological contract have significant influence on innovative behavior.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0807107-120849
Date07 August 2007
CreatorsHsu, Cheng-hui
ContributorsChin-Kang Jen, I-Heng Chen, Liang-Chih Huang
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0807107-120849
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