关键词: CEO变革型领导行为方式, 组织惯例更新, 环境不确定性, 组织绩效

Abstract: The subject of organizational routines updating has always been the main content referring to organizational behavior science and some studies on enterprise strategy, and also such research plays an important role in addressing issue in the research field of organizational routines. The specific objective of this study was to mainly discuss what are the main factors influencing organizational routines updating and how organizational routines updating has an impact on organizational performance. Also, this research makes a respective discussion about two relationship, they are the relationship between the behaviors of CEO transformation leadership and organizational routines updating as well as the relationship between organizational routines updating and organizational performance. In the meanwhile, the moderating effect of environmental uncertainty on the relationship between the behaviors of CEO transformation leadership and organizational routines updating has also been found and demonstrated in this paper.
This study seeks to obtain data which will help to address these research issues. Specifically, this research collected data by holding a great deal number of questionnaire investigations in 232 the different companies of Shanghai city, Wulumuqi city of Xinjiang province, Zhengzhou city of Henan province. The subjects of investigation this research mainly aiming for are manages who work in middle-high post of companies. After arranging data from the questionnaire investigations, SPSS and AMOS statistical analysis software was used to hold a deep data analysis. The results of this investigation indicate that: (1) The behaviors of CEO transformation leadership could have an obvious and positive effect on organizational routines updating and promote effectively organizational routines updating. (2) The behaviors of CEO transformation leadership could exert an obvious and positive influence on organizational performance, organizational routines updating could exert a mediating effect between the behaviors of CEO transformation leadership and organizational performance among those factors. (3) Environmental uncertainty would have a moderating effect between the behaviors of CEO transformation leadership and organizational routines updating. In the environment with a high uncertainty, the behaviors of CEO transformation leadership have an obvious influence on the organizational routines updating. On the contrary, in the environment with a low uncertainty, the behaviors of CEO transformation leadership have a slight influence on the organizational routines updating. The findings of this study have a number of important implications for future practice.
In the end, this paper put forward some management solutions and suggestions. (1) The principal theoretical implication of this study is that CEO have to keep the heterogeneity in terms of employees, innovations and actions in organizations. In the business environment with many frequent and fast changes, if managers of companies are willing to provide a lot amount of motivation and source for organizational routines updating, they have to make use of diversity and heterogeneity at three aspects including talent level, innovation level and action level. Furthermore, the behaviors of CEO transformation leadership are the strong points to provide supports to the talents, innovation and action in companies, they even should encourage employees to make some mistakes during the work and give employees enough support in order to help them make more innovations, which can provide motivation to form a promotion in the organizational routines updating. (2) The current data highlight the importance that enterprises should keep balance of redundancy between the core departments in some degree. Managers should offer the certain amount of redundancy among the core departments, which can make buffer in order to resist unknowable risks so that provide more redundancy for organizational routines updating. At the same time, such redundancy among the core departments supply foundation for organizational innovation and organizational routines in terms of exploration, variation and choice. (3) The results of this research support the idea that managers of companies should be capable to manage the environmental uncertainty effectively. Dealing with environmental uncertainty effectively by setting a series of reflection and self-adapting system of organizational routines updating is a necessary and important ability that an excellent enterprise manager should own. In the enterprise internal, mutation and choice of organizational routines is a process during the management. The inherence of diversity, choice and innovation in one company could happen only in a positive conditional environment. Therefore, CEO have to cultivate and build a set of mechanism that reflect and circle and self-adapt organizational routines updating, which give a guide on exploration, variation and choice of organizational routines to manage effectively environmental uncertainty.
This study is an important part in the field of organizational routines. The study of organizational routines upgrading focuses on the relationship between organizational routines and environmental adaptability, is the extension of organizational routines study. By illustrating the positive effect behaviors of CEO transformation leadership on organizational routines upgrading and the mediating effect in high environment uncertainty and low environment uncertainty, this study became an important part in the field of organizational routines and at the same time, provides valuable insights for managerial practices. How to promote organizational routines upgrading? How to effectively copewit the uncertainty in management environment? At the end of this article, it offers suggestions from the perspectives of employees, managers and departments, that is: by maintaining diversity within employees to boost innovations, by keeping a certain amount of redundancy between departments to create space for the "search", "mutation" and "selection" of organizational routines and by improving managers’ ability to cope with future uncertainty to promote the upgrading of organizational routines. This research is of important theoretical significance and practical significance for enriching the research results referring to organizational routine studies.

Key words: CEO transformation leadership, organizational routine updating, environmental uncertainty, organizational performance