Fostering employees' innovative behavior: The importance of proactive personality and work-related flow

Yuping Dai; Shuwen Qin; Yuk Ming Tang; Jie Hou

Acta Psychologica (Jun 2024)

Fostering employees' innovative behavior: The importance of proactive personality and work-related flow

Yuping Dai,
Shuwen Qin,
Yuk Ming Tang,
Jie Hou

Affiliations

Yuping Dai: School of Economics and Management, Hebei North University, Zhangjiakou, Hebei, PR China; Faculty of Business, City University of Macau, Macau; Corresponding authors at: Jie Hou, No. 3 Shangyuan Cun, Haidian District, Beijing City, PR China; Yuping Dai, No. 11 South of Zuanshi Road, Gaoxin District, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, PR China.
Shuwen Qin: School of Economics and Management, Hebei North University, Zhangjiakou, Hebei, PR China
Yuk Ming Tang: School of Business, Shenzhen Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, PR China; Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Jie Hou: School of Languages and Communication Studies, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, PR China; School of Foreign Languages, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, Anhui Province, PR China; Corresponding authors at: Jie Hou, No. 3 Shangyuan Cun, Haidian District, Beijing City, PR China; Yuping Dai, No. 11 South of Zuanshi Road, Gaoxin District, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, PR China.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 246
p. 104278

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Employees' innovative behaviors (EIB) play a crucial role in driving enterprises' innovation and enabling them to adapt to the complex business environment. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of proactive personality in EIB, whereby a mediating effect of work-related flow is proposed in this relationship. The moderating effect of organizational innovation climate is also examined on the indirect of proactive personality on EIB through work-related flow. With purposive sampling, a questionnaire survey was conducted on front-line employees of two digital cultural and creative industrial parks in Southwest China. A total of 279 valid questionnaires were used for hypothesis verification. The findings indicate that employees' proactive personality has a significant positive effect on EIB. Employees with a proactive personality are more likely to experience work-related flow, which in turn promotes their EIB. However, we did not find evidence of the organizational innovation climate moderating the relationship between proactive personality and EIB.

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ISSN: 0001-6918 (Print); 1873-6297 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Philosophy. Psychology. Religion: Psychology
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/acta-psychologica

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