Abstract
The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship among marine tourism employee’s personality traits, work motivation and innovative behavior. In order to meet this purpose, the study conducts questionnaire survey. Questionnaire sample of 250 has been handed out and 215 valid samples have been collected. The results show that employees with higher intrinsic work motivation are more likely to generate innovative behavior. The compensation in extrinsic work motivation has a positive effect on employee’s innovative behavior. Intrinsic work motivation has mediated effect between personality traits and innovative behavior. Extrinsic work motivation has partial mediated effect between personality traits and innovative behavior.
Highlights
Tourism has become one of the most important industries in the world, it was called “industry without chimneys”, and its economic influences are vital for many countries [1]
The hypotheses of this research are all established. It means that employees with higher intrinsic work motivation are more likely to generate innovative behavior
The findings provide several implications, first of all, if personnel have more enjoyment and challenge in their intrinsic motivation, they will exhibit more innovative behavior, the marine tourism industry should reinforce the delight and challenge in the content of the work
Summary
Tourism has become one of the most important industries in the world, it was called “industry without chimneys”, and its economic influences are vital for many countries [1]. The business continuity depends on its innovation of organizations; the creativity and innovation are the main innovation origin of the enterprises. If their employees can effectively execute their innovative behavior, it will help their enterprises stand out of complicated business environment [6]. The personality traits can considerably interpret the happening cause and forecasting on innovative behavior [9]. It is not fully understood on the relationship between personality traits and innovative behavior in the past, this contributes to the research motive of this study. Work motivation is the composing element of creativity, they are correlated to some extent, and work motivation can be divided into
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