문제해결 스타일이 혁신행동에 미치는 영향 - 핵심자기평가와 상사지원인식의 조절효과 검증을 중심으로 -

Abstract

As the competition among the firms, the conventional way of firms became useless for the competition and tried to search for innovation. In pursuing innovation, firm realized that firms’ innovation starts from individual members’ behaviors and created the concept of innovative behavior. Innovative behavior draw lots of attention and a large number of studies has been conducted up to now. Recent Kwon & Kim’s (2020) literature review on innovative behavior showed little attention to individual trait like personality. In this background, our study shortly reviewed on the studies about the relationship between personal trait and innovative behavior and set the direction of this study. After short review, we found that there is not a few studies about the relationship between personality and innovative behavior but little about the relationship between innovative behavior and the personal traits except personality. So we focused on the problem solving style which drew the attention as antecedents of innovative behavior at early stage of research on innovative behavior and core self-evaluation which are suggested relatively recently and very limitedly studied as the antecedents of innovative behavior. The studies on personal traits pay attention not only to their effects on consequences but also to the relevant situation that can activate the relationship between trait and trait relevant behavior following trait activation theory. In the vein, we also considered in the supervisory support as the potential moderating variables on the relationship between problem solving style and innovative behavior. For the empirical test, we collected data from the 228employees belong to Chinese public companies with survey and analyzed the relationship with hierarchical regression analysis. First, only intuitive problem solving style except systematic problem solving style showed significant positive effect on innovative behavior. Second, in the case of core self-evaluation, its main effect on innovative behavior was supported but none of its moderating effects on the two path from problem solving style to innovative behavior. Last, in the case of supervisory support, its main effect on innovative behavior was supported and the moderating effect on the path from intuitive problem solving style to innovative behavior was supported. On these results. We discussed the theoretical and practical implications.