The impact of authentic leadership on employees’ bootleg innovation behavior: the mediating role of affective commitment

The findings indicate that authentic leadership has a positive influence on employees' deviant innovative behavior. Authentic leadership also positively affects affective commitment and affective commitment partially mediates the relationship between authentic leadership and employees' deviant and innovative behavior. This study introduces an emotional perspective and takes emotional commitment as a mediating variable to explore the mediating transmission mechanism of emotional commitment between authentic leadership and employee deviant innovation. It enriches the research on the influence path of authentic leadership on the relationship of employee deviant innovation.