ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP AND EMPLOYEE INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOUR IN SELECTED MANUFACTURING SMES IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA
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Entrepreneurial leadership enables a firm to develop, deploy and integrate internal capabilities and practices to enhance its competitiveness. Entrepreneurial leaders play pivotal roles through both directly, as well as through the amplified effect of the follower response. Entrepreneurial leadership enables a firm to develop, deploy and integrate internal capabilities and practices to enhance its competitiveness. Entrepreneurial leaders play pivotal roles through both directly, as well as through the amplified effect of the follower response. Therefore, this study examined the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and employee innovative behaviour in selected manufacturing SMEs in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study adopted a cross sectional survey research design. The population of the study was 2,099 owner/managers of selected manufacturing SMEs. Sample size of 437 owner/managers was determined using Slovin’s formula. A structured questionnaire was adapted and validated to collect data from the respondents. The reliability of the instrument was ascertained using the Cronbach’s Alpha reliability coefficients with the items scoring above 0.70. The hypothesis was tested using the Spearman Rank Order Correlation coefficients to determine the level of association between the variables. The finding revealed that there is a significant relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and employee innovative behaviour in selected manufacturing SMEs in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study thus concluded that when entrepreneurial leadership is adopted by selected manufacturing SMEs in Lagos State, Nigeria it invariably encourages employee innovative behaviour which is a catalyst for building competitive advantage. The researcher recommended that entrepreneurial leadership which directs and facilitates followers to achieve superior performance and meet organizational goals by recognizing and exploiting entrepreneurial opportunities through their creative contributions should be vigorously pursued.
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Leadership, Innovativeness, Proactiveness, Risk-Taking Employee Innovative Behaviour
CITATION: Okoronkwo, g. I. (2021). Entrepreneurial leadership and employee innovative behaviour in selected manufacturing SMEs in Lagos State, Nigeria. The Strategic Journal of Business & Change Management, 8 (4), 1003 – 1014.
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