An Empirical Study on the Organizational Trust, Employee-Organization Relationship and Innovative Behavior from the Integrated Perspective of Social Exchange and Organizational Sustainability

Ming-Chuan Yu, Qiang Mai, Sang-Bing Tsai and Yi Dai
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Ming-Chuan Yu: School of Finance and Business, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
Qiang Mai: School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Sang-Bing Tsai: Zhongshan Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Zhongshan 528400, China
Yi Dai: School of Business, Shanghai Dianji University, Shanghai 201306, China

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 3, 1-14

Abstract: Combining social exchange and inducement-contribution theory as our overarching theoretical framework, we examine innovative climate as a boundary condition and organizational trust as a mediating mechanism to explain when and how the employee-organization relationship (EOR) is associated with workplace innovative behavior. We conducted a field study using multi-source data to test our hypotheses. The results indicated that creativity positively predicted innovative behavior through organizational trust, and an innovative climate moderated the indirect effect of EOR on innovative behavior via organizational trust. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings and directions for future research are discussed.

Keywords: organizational trust; employee-organization relationship; innovative climate; innovative behavior; organizational sustainability; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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