First of all, I must provide a disclaimer on the topic. I am rather young (I hope), innovative minded and usually an early adaptor who has worked with changes through my entire career. So change is natural to me. And I tend to react with enthusiasm when something new is presented to me. And before reading the text, I want to give you a task. When reading through it, stop every now and them and see…

There is a growing interest among researchers and practitioners about the drivers of workplace innovation (e.g. De Jong and Hartog, 2010). Employee innovation drives organization innovation. Employee innovation is defined as self-directed behaviour to generate and implement new ideas to benefit the individual or organization (Bos-Nehles et al. 2017). The extant literature suggests that leadership…