How Does Positive Work-Related Stress Affect the Degree of Innovation Development?

Gema Albort-Morant, Antonio Ariza-Montes, Antonio Leal-Rodríguez and Gabriele Giorgi
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Gema Albort-Morant: Departamento de Economía Financiera y Dirección de Operaciones, Universidad de Sevilla, 41018 Sevilla, Spain
Antonio Ariza-Montes: Departamento de Gestión Empresarial, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, 14004 Córdoba, Spain
Antonio Leal-Rodríguez: Departamento de Administración de Empresas y Marketing, Universidad de Sevilla, 41018 Sevilla, Spain
Gabriele Giorgi: Department of Human Sciences, Università Europea di Roma, 00163 Roma, Italy

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 2, 1-15

Abstract: Many studies sustain that work-related stress exerts pervasive consequences on the employees’ levels of performance, productivity, and wellbeing. However, it remains unclear whether certain levels of stress might lead to positive outcomes regarding employees’ innovativeness. Hence, this paper examines how the five dimensions of work-related stress impact on the employees’ levels of innovation performance. To this aim, this study focused on a sample of 1487 employees from six Italian companies. To test the research hypotheses under assessment, we relied on the use of the partial least squares (PLS) technique. Our results reveal that, in summary, the stressors job autonomy, job demands, and role ambiguity exert a positive and significant impact on the employees’ levels of innovativeness. However, this study failed to find evidence that the supervisors’ support–innovation and colleagues’ support–innovation links are not statistically significant.

Keywords: work-related stress; innovation; partial least squares (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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