The impact of CEO transformational leadership on organizational voluntary turnover and employee innovative behaviour: the mediating role of collaborative HRM

Integrating theories of transformational leadership and strategic human resource management, this study examines how transformational leadership of chief executive officers (CEOs) can affect organizational and individual outcomes through the establishment of a collaborative human resource management (HRM) system. Based on data collected from 98 high‐tech companies in China, our research revealed that through the mediating role of collaborative HRM, CEO transformational leadership has an indirect negative effect on organizational voluntary turnover rate and an indirect positive effect on individual innovative behaviour. Key points CEO transformational leadership has a positive influence on collaborative HRM. Collaborative HRM reduces organizational voluntary turnover rates and increases employee innovative behaviours. CEO transformational leadership affects organization‐level and individual‐level outcomes through collaborative HRM.