Climate for innovation and employee creativity

Jieqiong Liu, Yanfei Wang and Yu Zhu

International Journal of Manpower, 2020, vol. 41, issue 4, 341-356

Abstract: Purpose - This study proposes a moderated mediation model that examines the roles that openness to change and psychological capital (PsyCap) may play in the relationship between climate for innovation and employee creativity. Design/methodology/approach - Path modeling analysis with software Mplus 7 is conducted to test our moderated mediation model. Findings - The results show that climate for innovation promotes openness to change, which in turn encourages employee creativity, and PsyCap moderates not only the relationship between climate for innovation and openness to change but also the indirect effect of climate for innovation on employee creativity through openness to change. Research limitations/implications - Although we attempt to avoid common method bias by collecting data in two waves, the six-month time interval separating the two waves of data collection may not be long enough to detect the causal relationship between climate for innovation and employee creativity. In addition, this study is conducted in companies located in China, which may raise the question of generalizability to other cultures. Originality/value - The main contribution is building a moderated mediation model to uncover the potential mediating mechanism and boundary conditions associated with the influence of climate for innovation on employee creativity.

Keywords: Climate for innovation; Openness to change; Psychological capital; Employee creativity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1108/IJM-02-2017-0030

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