Two-wave survey reveals digital leadership enhances innovation behavior in Chinese employees via job crafting, indicating digital human resource practices amplify this proactive pathway.
Key Points
Investigate how digital leadership facilitates employee innovation behavior by examining the mediating role of job crafting and the moderating effect of digital human resource management intensity.
Conducted a two-stage questionnaire survey across two time points among employees across diverse industries in China (N=627).
Tested direct, indirect, and moderated pathways using linear regression analysis and the PROCESS macro under the proactive motivation model framework.
Digital leadership demonstrated a significant positive association with employee innovation behavior.
Job crafting mediated the prospective relationship between digital leadership and employee innovation.
Digital human resource management intensity positively moderated both the impact of digital leadership on job crafting and the indirect pathway to innovation behavior.