心理科学 ›› 2024, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (6): 1422-1432.DOI: 10.16719/j.cnki.1671-6981.20240614

• 社会、人格与管理 • 上一篇    下一篇

“肩负愿景、心系忧患”愿景-忧患双元领导对下属平衡式创新的影响*

林晨1, 赵晨1, 周锦来1, 高中华**2   

  1. 1北京邮电大学经济管理学院,北京,100876;
    2中国社会科学院工业经济研究所,北京,100006
  • 出版日期:2024-11-20 发布日期:2024-12-24
  • 通讯作者: **高中华,E-mail:gaozhh@cass.org.cn
  • 基金资助:
    *本研究得到国家自然科学基金(72172017, 72272148)、北京市自然科学基金(9222023)、教育部人文社会科学青年基金(21YJC630170)和中国社会科学院登峰战略企业管理优势学科建设项目(DF2023YS25)的资助

“Shouldering the Vision and Vigilance”: The Impact of Visionary-Vigilant Ambidextrous Leadership on Balanced Innovation

Lin Chen1, Zhao Chen1, Zhou Jinlai1, Gao Zhonghua2   

  1. 1School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876;
    2Institute of Industrial Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 100006
  • Online:2024-11-20 Published:2024-12-24

摘要: 平衡式创新能有效规避单一行为模式的创新风险并引起学界重视,然而多元领导对平衡式创新的影响机制仍有待明晰。基于社会信息加工理论,分析53个团队301名员工的两阶段数据,探析愿景-忧患双元领导影响下属平衡式创新的心理过程。结果表明:愿景-忧患双元领导正向影响下属平衡式创新;愿景-忧患双元领导具有通过下属悖论思维影响平衡式创新的中介效应;环境动态性在愿景-忧患双元领导影响下属悖论思维时起增强调节作用,在通过悖论思维影响平衡式创新的中介路径中起调节中介效应。结论丰富和发展了多元领导和平衡式创新的理论建设。

关键词: 愿景型领导, 忧患型领导, 平衡式创新, 双元领导, 社会信息加工理论

Abstract: Today’s world is experiencing the greatest changes in a century. Management practitioners are generally struggling with the difficult choice of “change or stay the same”. We believe that in the era of digital economy, where new technologies emerge in endlessly and product iteration deepens, organizations should not only carry out radical innovation but also consider incremental innovation. Therefore, we argue that balanced innovation, which balances both radical innovation and incremental innovation, is of great significance in the business activities of enterprises. However, previous studies on balanced innovation usually stay at the organizational level and fail to analyze the micro-psychological mechanism of balanced innovation at the individual level, which may not seem to take effect immediately, but it is still equally important. At the same time, analyzing the impact of a single leadership on balanced innovation often has limitations, because a single leadership may focus on different aspects of innovation activities. Therefore, we focus on two types of complementary change-oriented leadership, visionary leadership and vigilant leadership, and explore the psychological mechanism of the joint effect of the two types of leadership on the subordinate’s balanced innovation behavior.
Based on previous studies depicting the theoretical connotations of visionary leadership and vigilant leadership, we argue that the two have complementary relationships in terms of goals and behavioral logic. Referring to the existing definition of ambidextrous leadership, we combine the complementary relationship between visionary leadership and vigilant leadership to propose a visionary-vigilant ambidextrous leadership composed of the two. Furthermore, based on the social information processing theory, we take subordinates’ paradoxical mindset as the mediator and the environmental dynamics as the moderator to study the impact mechanism of visionary-vigilant ambidextrous leadership on subordinates’ balanced innovation. We tested our hypothesis by conducting a two-stage study with 301 participants in 53 teams. Data were collected using a visionary scale, a vigilant leadership scale, a paradoxical mindset scale, an environmental dynamics scale, a radical innovation scale, and an incremental innovation scale. The mechanism is analyzed by using the two-level structure equation model.
The results show that: (1) Visionary-vigilant ambidextrous leadership has a positive effect on subordinates’ balanced innovation. (2) Subordinates’ paradoxical mindset plays a mediating role in the process of visionary-vigilant ambidextrous leadership influencing balanced innovation. (3) Environmental dynamics plays a moderating role in the process of visionary-vigilant ambidextrous leadership influencing subordinates’ paradox mindset. The higher the environment dynamics, the stronger the positive effect of visionary-vigilant ambidextrous leadership on subordinates’ paradoxical mindset is. (4) Environmental dynamics also play a moderating role in the mediation process of visionary-vigilant ambidextrous leadership influencing balanced innovation through the paradoxical mindset.
The study makes important contributions. First, we revealed the mechanism of the joint influence of multiple leadership on subordinate balanced innovation, which fills the gap in existing research that focuses on the relationship between balanced innovation and single leadership. Second, based on the social information processing theory, we achieved a micro psychological portrayal of the trickle-down process in which leaders’ diversified change behaviors affect subordinates’ balanced innovation, making up for the lack of individual psychology in previous studies in the field of balanced innovation. Finally, we explored the interaction between vigilant leadership and other leadership, enriched and developed the theoretical construction of vigilant leadership. Vigilant leadership, as a new type of leadership proposed in recent years, has received little research attention. Previous studies have suggested that there may be complementary theoretical relationships between this type of leadership and other leadership, and have called for further research to explore this possibility. One contribution of this study is its response to existing studies. The conclusion of this paper can also provide action directions for organizational leaders to lead subordinates to perform balanced innovation, and guide managers to adopt a ambidextrous leadership that balances vision and vigilance when appropriate.

Key words: visionary leadership, vigilant leadership, balanced innovation, ambidextrous leadership, social information processing theory