Innovative Work Behaviour: The Impact of Comprehensive HR System Perceptions and the Role of Work--Life Conflict

Adriana Abstein, Sven Heidenreich and Patrick Spieth

Industry and Innovation, 2014, vol. 21, issue 2, 91-116

Abstract: Human resource (HR) systems have the potential to both foster innovative work behaviour (IWB) and reduce work--life conflict (WLC)--enabling employees to engage in IWB. We investigate the proposed relationships between comprehensive HR systems, WLC and IWB using variance-based structural equation modelling. We found that HR systems that are perceived as comprehensive significantly enhance IWB and decrease feelings of WLC. Contrary to our expectation, we found a significant yet positive effect of WLC on IWB. Employees may respond to WLC constructively by being innovative, improving their environment and making the work--life interface manageable. By promoting IWB, HR systems might also help employees to deal with residual--and, perhaps, unavoidable--levels of WLC.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2014.896159

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