Unleashing Employees’ Power to Innovate: Cross-level Effects of Employment Relationships and Job Complexity

M. Audenaert, A. Vanderstraeten and Dirk Buyens

Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium from Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Abstract: This study develops a multilevel conceptual model linking employment relationships and psychological empowerment with individual innovation. To test this model, we use survey data on 82 job functions and 934 employees from a large Flemish service organization. The results highlight the role of variables at the job-level. The first job-level context variable concerns employment relationships. The findings show that employment relationships with high job requirements and/or offered inducements affect psychological empowerment, which in turn is related to individual innovation. The second job-level context variable concerns job complexity. The findings show that job complexity operates as a cross-level moderator of the link between psychological empowerment and individual innovation. These findingsunderscore recent claims that multilevel linkages and the job-level context matter in explaining individual innovation in service organizations.

Keywords: Employment relationship; psychological empowerment; job complexity; individual innovation; multilevel study. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-04
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