Leadership, Innovative Work behavior and Software Development Companies in Romania

• Author: Ioana Gutu
• Position: Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Ia?i, Iasi, Romania
• Pages: 232-241

European Integration - Realities and Perspectives. Proceedings 2020

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Leadership, Innovative Work behavior and Software Development

Companies in Romania

Ioana Gutu1

Abstract: Consid ered to be a phenomenon whose complexity is growing within the last decade,

organizational innovation has a different specific, according to the analysis level it refers to. This paperwork

will only take into consideration the concept of innovation as a process, and will not focus on the results as a

specific outcome of the innovation process. Leadership is the new driver for innovation; among the many

theories and styles of leadership, the greatest impact on the process of innovation appertains to the

transformational leadership; the new organizational order focuses on the reinventing the business models

and processes, rather than developing new products and processes. The results highlight the effect of

innovation for the business models and market launching, as the transformational leaders become highly

specialized organizational assets. The outcome for the organizational processes that imply both

transformational leadership and the process of innovation can o nly be seen through the innovative work

behavior of both individuals and team members. This research will focus on quantifying these behaviors

within software development companies in Romania, where the used instrument was Workplace Innovation

Scale (WIS) as introduced by McMurray and Dorai in 2003. Results will show that transformational

leadership practices are common within organizational behaviors, and their influence on innovation and

organizational members creativity is significant for all the four considered scales: organizational innovatio n,

climate for innovation, individual and team innovation.

Keywords: leadership; innovation; innovative work behavior

JEL Classification: M12

Foreword

Software development companies in Romania represent one of the focus subjects of the IT industry

around the word, for the achieved performance, rapidity and reliability they offer. Leadership is being

performed within these subjects on a rather basic level, while innovative work behavior highlights the

employees inefficient and incomplete personal development, and an acute need for transformational

leaders to perform.

Advocates of transformational leadership expressed their confidence that the arrangements specific for

the past shall not guide the future. Therefore, software development industry in Romania is expected

to fully develop and achieve innovative results not only at organizational but mostly at individual

level, while transformational leaders adapt their tactics for the specific and age of the industry.

1 Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Ia si, Romania, Address: 11

Blvd. Carol I, Iasi, Romania, Corresponding author: gutu.ioana@yahoo.com.