HR systems and leadership attachment affecting idea generation and implementation : an experiment and two-source multi-level study

Batistič, Saša (author), Kenda, Renata (author), Premru, Maruša (author), Černe, Matej (author)

This paper focuses on the direct and interactive influence of leadership attachment styles (secure, anxious, and avoidant) and commitment HR system on two distinct stages of the individual innovation process—idea generation and implementation. We test our hypotheses in two studies. An experimental study of undergraduate students establishes a positive effect of secure attachment on idea implementation. The interplay between commitment HR system and avoidant attachment marginally predict idea generation; commitment HR system and neither secure nor anxious attachment predict implementation. A multisource multi-level field study in three EU-based private firms replicates the direct role of commitment HR system in stimulating idea implementation (but not generation) and suggests that secure attachment fosters both generation and implementation, whereas anxious attachment hinders both. Moderation analyses support only a marginal interaction between commitment HR system and secure attachment in fostering idea generation. We discuss theoretical, practical, and future research implications.

• Language: English
• Keywords: human capital, knowledge transfer, innovations, creativity, leadership attachment styles, HR systems, innovation, idea generation, idea implementation
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: In print
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 10.09.2021
• Year: 2021
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-138525
• UDC: 331.108
• ISSN on article: 0263-2373
• DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2021.09.005
• COBISS.SI-ID: 76589827
• Publication date in RUL: 25.07.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: European management journal
• Shortened title: Eur. manage. j.
• Publisher: Elsevier
• ISSN: 0263-2373
• COBISS.SI-ID: 25432320

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 10.09.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: človeški kapital, prenos znanja, inovacije, kreativnost