A Study of the Effects of Leadership Styles on Innovation Management and Organizational Innovation in Environmental Protection Industry

Environmental protection industry covers prevent environmental pollution, improve the ecological environment, and protect natural resources to diversify the business marketing channels. It is necessary to utilize teamwork as the management model for sharing and fully using resources. Under the cross-industry business, traditional marketing is impacted and the market becomes more competitive. Salespeople in traditional Environmental protection industry could maintain the market by learning and enhancing personal service quality. The competence of a business supervisor is the key in the excellence of the team. The major characteristic of Environmental protection industry is talent oriented, unlike traditional manufacturing with plenty of production machines and production lines. The major issue for Environmental protection industry therefore is to enrich industrial talents. As the example of environmental protection industry in Guangdong, the effect of leadership styles on innovation management and organizational innovation is discussed. With quantitative questionnaire survey, data required for this study are collected and analyzed with statistics for the conclusion and suggestion. The research results reveal that leadership styles could coherence to the unit and induce employees involving in the work with continuous innovative ability to achieve organizational innovation; and, leadership styles could affect the operation of innovation management, which could induce employees to work hard.