From Supervision to Innovation: Exploring the Sequential Pathways of Work-Life Balance and Effort

An innovative mind is an asset for the organization; capturing the intellect people; nurturing their critical thinking and retaining those employees is always a critical task for the organizations. Leaders take this responsibility for the betterment of their business firm. On, innovative work behavior, notably the missing link is identifying the impact of latest renowned underexplored leadership style, ebullient supervision. Developing over the affective event theory, this paper explored the simple relation as well as sequential mediation of work-life balance and work effort invested by an employee due to ebullient supervision. Using the famous probability sampling technique, purposive sampling, the data is collected from 382 employees; both supervisors and supervisees, working in software houses of Pakistan. The advanced version of PLS-SEM is used to explore the uncovered paths among the constructs. The rigorous results supported the presumed relations that work-life balance and work effort simply and partially mediate the impact of ebullient supervision on innovative work behavior of employees, proving this study novel. Thus, this study ensures the perspicacity for future leaders to execute their policies to enhance the innovative environment at their workplace.