Impact of Leadership on the Relationship Between Innovation and Performance

Abstract

Leadership, innovation, and performance are essential factors to achieve the desired sustainable profitability of companies. The relationship between these variables is one of the keys to the organizational success, although their study has proved to be complex. The purpose of this article is to analyse the impact of leadership on the relationship between innovation and performance in the Portuguese hotel sector. To answer to this challenge, a survey was carried out to top and middle managers of four-star and five-star hotel units. The existence of a positive correlation between innovation and performance was found; however, leadership has not been shown to have a moderating effect on the relationship. The work highlights several important contributions to the hotel industry and identifies aspects that, when well implemented and developed, can lead to superior performance in organizations.

Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation by 1-3 Star Rated Hotels in Kenya

“…According to Huynh (2021), the dimensions of transformational leadership (intellectual stimulation, inspirational motivation, and individual consideration) have positive and significant influence employee strategic renewal behaviour and venture behaviour directly, and via job satisfaction and commitment to organizational change (affective commitment and normative commitment) thus affecting their orientation towards dynamism and new processes. Leitão (2021) likewise asserts that leadership affects goals, visions, strategy, social environment and employee motivation. Leaders need to be creative not only for survival, but also to compete quickly in an ever-changing world.…”

“…This study's results are a confirmation that a higher level of academic entrepreneurship in these universities will result from a higher level of entrepreneurial behavior among academic leaders. Leitão (2021) likewise asserts that leadership affects goals, visions, strategy, social environment and employee motivation. Leaders need to be creative not only for survival, but also to compete quickly in an ever-changing world and since in the hospitality sector, competitiveness depends on the level of innovation in terms of high-quality and low-cost production of its services, which meet or exceed the customer's need with a certain level of novelty and sophistication, inspirational and directional role of the leader towards innovation cannot be overstated.…”

Understanding the Expectations of Young Employees Towards Leadership in Organizations

“…Literature Review. Leadership is still an extensively debated topic with various definitions, approaches, views, and methods (Leitão et al, 2021), as it has direct and indirect results to organizations and employees.…”

“…The previous research has found out the relationship between innovation and performance, and that enhanced innovation increases performance (Leitão et al, 2021).…”

“…Given that leaders support employees and create favorable conditions, they promote innovation in organizations by developing human capital (Leitão et al, 2021). Especially, transformational leaders contribute to innovativeness, as they are flexible, open-minded, with strategic thinking, they motivate people and explore new ideas, which results in improved team performance and business profit (Leitão et al, 2021).…”