Abstract
Preparing the college students to be ready to perform their innovative work behavior optimally is essential, especially in supporting organizational and national innovation for the SDGs’ success. One way is by examining how the students perceive their abilities, potential, and roles in the learning environment. The researchers believe that the relationship between the learner empowerment and innovative work behavior will have a more significant influence when they can also realize the learner empowerment into creative self-efficacy. The research respondents are 539 third semester students or higher from Universitas Indonesia. This quantitative research uses the Innovative Work Behavior Scale, the Learner Empowerment Scale, and the Creative Self-Efficacy Scale. The mediation analysis results show that creative self-efficacy has a partial mediating effect on learner empowerment’s relation to innovative work behavior. The three dimensions of the learner empowerment (meaningfulness, competence, and impact) are also significantly related to the innovative work behavior, with the impact as the strongest correlating dimension. This research can be used as input for developing the learning programs, both curricular and extracurricular, to perform innovative work behavior optimally.
Highlights
Innovation has a significant role in determining business success, performance, long-term sustainability, and an organization or company's lifeblood
Even though few studies address the students in innovative work behavior topics, hopefully, this research can give theoretical references regarding innovative work behavior among the students from the psychological empowerment perspective
The results show that learner empowerment can support the emergence of innovative work behavior, mainly explained through creative self-efficacy
Summary
Innovation has a significant role in determining business success, performance, long-term sustainability, and an organization or company's lifeblood. Innovation ensures the survival and efforts to achieve corporate/national objectives [1,2,3]. The basic of innovation is ideas and individuals who develop, carry, react, and modify them. Implementing ideas, which as the most crucial stage in the innovative behavior, takes place in intricate patterns that are sometimes not related to one's environment because it is part of an existing process within the individual [4]. 80% of innovative ideas come from individuals, and only 20% arise in the organization [5]. It is essential to prepare human resources to perform their innovativeness to support innovation in the organization or nation.
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