Background: Current pressures for globalisation force organisations to explore, create and implement new ideas in order to remain competitive. This necessitates the need to utilise innovation to diversify products and services, introduce new technology, establish new managerial and administrative practices, and initiate transformation in other areas of the organisation. Objectives: This article explored the relationship between the latent variables, namely, rewards, resources, leadership vision and innovation, as postulated by De Jong and Den Hartog’s leadership model for stimulating innovation. Method: The research approach chosen to investigate the research questions was an ex post facto, cross-sectional field survey. Secondary data from a reputable financial institution with extensive business in three African countries (Botswana, Lesotho and Namibia) were used as the data were collected by the institution and made available to the researcher for further analysis. A complete sample size of N = 584 was obtained across the three countries. Confirmatory factor analysis was initially used to provide a confirmatory test of the measurement theory followed by structural equation modelling which allowed to test for regression amongst the latent variables (rewards, resources, leadership vision and innovation). Results: Structural equation modelling revealed that only leadership vision and resources were found to be statistically significant; rewards showed a negative relationship ( r = −0.02) with innovation. Resources made the greater contribution ( r = 0.75) to innovation, compared to leadership vision ( r = 0.28). Conclusion: The study empirically validate and support the assertion of De Jong and Den Hartog (2007) that the latent variables resources and leadership vision positively correlate with innovation in the context of the financial services industry.

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领导力模型验证：影响创新的维度

背景：当前全球化的压力迫使组织探索，创建和实施新的想法，以保持竞争力。这就需要利用创新来使产品和服务多样化，引入新技术，建立新的管理和行政惯例以及启动组织其他领域的转型。目标：本文探讨了De Jong和Den Hartog的激励创新的领导模型所假设的潜在变量之间的关系，即奖励，资源，领导者愿景和创新。方法：选择用于研究问题的研究方法是事后进行的横断面现场调查。来自在三个非洲国家（博茨瓦纳，该机构收集了莱索托和纳米比亚的数据，并提供给研究者进行进一步分析。在这三个国家中，获得的样本总数为N = 584。最初使用验证性因素分析来提供对测量理论的验证性测试，然后使用结构方程模型进行测试，以测试潜在变量（奖励，资源，领导视野和创新）之间的回归。结果：结构方程建模显示，只有领导者的视野和资源被发现具有统计学意义；报酬与创新呈负相关（r = -0.02）。与领导力愿景（r = 0.28）相比，资源对创新的贡献更大（r = 0.75）。结论：