The Impact of Inclusive Leadership on Team Innovation: A Moderated Chain Mediation Model

Drawing on Team Regulation Theory, we discuss how and when inclusive leadership impacts team innovation. Data were collected from 545 full-time employees in 119 teams using a 4-phase time-lag method. Path analysis and Bootstrapping simulation analyses were used to test the hypotheses. The results showed that inclusive leadership positively influenced team innovation, and team diversity climate and team reflexivity play a chain mediating role in the relationship between the two. Additionally, team career calling moderated the relationship between team diversity climate and team reflexivity, and the positive relationship between the two was stronger when team career calling was higher. These findings and their implications for theory and practice are discussed.