Open AccessStructural Equation Modeling: The Impact of Leader Attitudes on the Innovative Work Behaviour in Real Estate Development Companies
Author(s) -
René Lauck
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
humanities and social sciences. latvia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2592-947X
pISSN - 1022-4483
DOI - 10.22364/hssl.28.2.04
Subject(s) - structural equation modeling , real estate , loyalty , work (physics) , affect (linguistics) , business , relevance (law) , marketing , real estate development , work behavior , public relations , sociology , engineering , political science , finance , computer science , mechanical engineering , communication , machine learning , law
Leadership and innovation management are academic disciplines of high interest to scholars for decades. The fast changing and volatile business environment require companies to constantly improve their processes to remain competitive on the market. In particular, real estate development companies significantly benefit from innovativeness as each property development is unique, underlies different construction purposes and laws. Therefore, real estate developers need to bring the developable area in line with the building construction. One major driver to boost the competitiveness of organisations can be found in the individual innovative work behaviour of employees. To benefit from the individual’s innovative work behaviour, leadership embodies a major influence factor. In particular, this article examines how leader attitudes affect the innovative work behaviour of staff members working in real estate development companies. Therefore, the author developed and calculated a structural equation model to examine this relationship. The results from the structural equation modelling show that integrity and loyalty positively and significantly affect the innovative work behaviour of employees in real estate development companies. Consequently, demonstrating loyalty and integrity from leaders towards staff members improves the innovativeness of the entire organisation. Moreover, this research supports the relevance for the trait approach to leadership as leader attitudes contribute to different extents to the innovative work behaviour.