How to Motivate Employees for Sustained Innovation Behavior in Job Stressors? A Cross-Level Analysis of Organizational Innovation Climate

Pei-Xu He, Tung-Ju Wu, Hong-Dan Zhao and Yang Yang
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Pei-Xu He: Oriental Enterprise Management Research Center & Research Center of Business Management, School of Business Administration, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 362021, China
Tung-Ju Wu: School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin 150001, China
Hong-Dan Zhao: School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
Yang Yang: School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin 150001, China

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 23, 1-14

Abstract: The starting point of organizational innovation is employees’ creative thinking and innovation behaviors at work. In addition to personality and innovation willingness, innovation behavior depends on the level of support available in an organizational environment. The data used in this study were collected from 74 R&D teams (418 employee participants) in technology companies in Taiwan, and a multi-level analysis was conducted to investigate the relationships among job stressors, creative self-efficacy, and employees’ sustained innovation behavior, as well as the role of the organizational innovation climate between creative self-efficacy and employees’ innovation behavior. The research findings revealed significant positive relationships between challenge stressors and employees’ sustained innovation behavior, as well as significant negative relationships between hindrance stressors and employees’ sustained innovation behavior, mediation effects of creative self-efficacy on job stressors and employees’ sustained innovation behavior, and moderation effects of the organizational innovation climate on employees’ creative self-efficacy and sustained innovation behavior. An enterprise could place some working-related stress on employees and create a rich internal innovative climate to induce innovation behavior in its members.

Keywords: challenge stressors; hindrance stressors; organizational innovation climate; sustained innovation behavior; creative self-efficacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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