How to Motivate Engineering and Technical Personnel to Innovate? The Impact of Human Resource Management Strength on Employee Innovation Behavior

Abstract

Based on a survey of 611 engineering and technical personnel in Chinese manufacturing enterprises, this paper uses hierarchical regression analysis and structural equation model to examine the influence path of human resources management strength on employee innovation behavior. Further, the Bootstrap method was used to test the mediating effect. The results show that human resource management strength has a significant positive impact on employee innovation behavior and its two dimensions. Organizational atmosphere and employee psychological conditions play multiple mediating roles between human resource management strength and employee innovation behavior. Compared with employees’ psychological conditions, organizational atmosphere has a more significant mediating effect on innovation ideas generate. There is no significant difference between the mediating effect of organizational climate and employee psychological conditions on the implementation of innovation ideas generate.