Harmony at home, everything goes well: the cross-domain influence mechanism of family harmony on employees’ innovative behaviour in China

Sanyin Wang, Yiming Bi and Xin Qi

Asia Pacific Business Review, 2025, vol. 31, issue 4, 799-822

Abstract: As the core of Confucian culture, family culture has been deeply rooted in the transformation and development of Chinese society, and it has profoundly impacted Chinese behaviour. Family harmony is a specific representation of family culture. Drawing on the work-home resource (W-HR) model, this study aims to explore how family harmony affects employees’ innovative behaviour (EIB) by examining the mediating effects of psychological safety and innovation self-efficacy and the moderate role of integration preference. Results based on two-wave lagged data (N = 699) reveal an indirect and positive relationship between family harmony and EIB through psychological safety and innovation self-efficacy, which is most pronounced when integration preference is high. Specifically, family harmony can help employees accumulate personal resources, boosting their psychological safety and innovation self-efficacy and further promoting their engagement in innovative behaviour. Furthermore, individuals with higher integration preference are more likely to derive cognitive resource gains (psychological safety and innovation self-efficacy) and are thus more likely to engage in innovative behaviour. We discuss how these findings contribute to the W-HR literature by showing the potential of family harmony to improve employees’ cognitive resources and functioning at work.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/13602381.2024.2319597

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