Organizational identification and employees’ innovative behavior: the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of creative self-efficacy
ISSN: 1750-614X
Article publication date: 6 September 2021
Issue publication date: 25 November 2022
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to investigate the effect of organizational identification to employees’ innovative behavior, the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of creative self-efficacy in the relationship between organizational identification and employees’ innovative behavior.
Design/methodology/approach
This study adopted questionnaires to gather data. The sample of 289 employees working in diverse organizations in China was applied to examine the hypotheses.
Findings
The results indicates that organizational identification is positively related to employees’ innovative behavior and work engagement mediates the relationship between organizational identification and employees’ innovative behavior. In addition, creative self-efficacy enhances the relationship of work engagement and employees’ innovative behavior.
Originality/value
This study builds a system from psychological aspect to behavior, which includes the effect of individual cognition to explain the mechanism of organizational identification on employees’ innovative behavior.
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Acknowledgements
Funding: The authors are grateful for the generous support of the Projects of the National Social Science Fund of China (Grant number: 19BGL080).
Citation
Zhang, G. and Wang, Y. (2022), "Organizational identification and employees’ innovative behavior: the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of creative self-efficacy", Chinese Management Studies, Vol. 16 No. 5, pp. 1108-1123. https://doi.org/10.1108/CMS-07-2021-0294
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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