Innovative Job Performance Research Articles

Do social media use and gadget loving affect innovative job performance? The moderation role of generation cohort: an evaluation of the kitchen chefs

Do social media use and gadget loving affect innovative job performance? The moderation role of generation cohort: an evaluation of the kitchen chefs

Interpersonal conflict and innovative job performance: examining cross-lagged relationships and the moderating roles of goal orientations

ABSTRACT This study examines the cross-lagged relationships between interpersonal conflict types (i.e., task, process, and relationship) and individual innovative job performance (IJP). We also examine the moderating roles of employees’ goal orientations (mastery and performance goal orientations) in these relationships. Utilizing time-lagged data collected from 235 Pakistani employees, we observed negative associations between task, process, and relationship conflicts and employee IJP. Furthermore, we found that employee mastery goal orientation reduces the detrimental effects of interpersonal conflict types on IJP, while performance goal orientation increases these negative effects. This study sheds light on the adverse impacts of interpersonal conflict types on employees’ IJP and elucidates the influence of employee goal orientations on these relationships.

The Effect of Self-Leadership on the Innovative Career Performance of Faculty Members at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences: The Mediating Role of Professional Development

Background. The research aims to investigate the potential correlation between self-leadership and innovative job performance among the faculty members at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran. Methods. The current study employs a quantitative approach with a practical purpose. The research method used is descriptive and correlational, utilizing structural equation modeling. The research focuses on the faculty members of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences during the academic year 2021-2022. According to the statistical resources, there were 793 faculty members at the university in the mentioned period. As per Morgan's table, the sample size consisted of 260 individuals. The methods utilized to collect the required data were the standard questionnaire of occupational innovation developed by Etlai and Akif (1982), the professional development questionnaire of faculty members developed by Davarpanah (2018), and the self-leadership questionnaire developed by Rahimi, et al. (2019). To statistically analyze the research data, the SPSS 23 software was first used to verify the normality of the studied variables. To calculate the correlation coefficients between them, AMOS Ver. 23 was utilized. Results. According to the correlation matrix table, there was a direct and significant relationship between professional development, self-leadership, and inventive performance. The measurement models fit well based on the results of confirmatory factor analysis and assessment indices. The Cronbach's alpha value was 0.82. The self-leadership coefficient of influence on work innovation was 0.37, self-leadership had a 0.38 coefficient of influence on professional progress, and professional development had a 0.31 impact factor on job innovation. Conclusion. This study revealed that faculty members' self-leadership and professional development had a positive and statistically significant effect on their innovative career performance. The results also confirmed the mediating function of professional development in the relationship between self-leadership and innovative career performance.

Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy in the Relationship between Psychological Capital and Innovative Job Performance of Teachers

Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy in the Relationship between Psychological Capital and Innovative Job Performance of Teachers

Employee innovative job performance and firms' financial performance: a multilevel insight with big data analytics and entrepreneurial orientation

PurposeThe present research developed and investigated a multilevel theoretical framework by underpinning a resource-based view (RBV) that uncovers how and when academic researchers and organizational practitioners can strategically attain a competitive edge and increase their financial performance.Design/methodology/approachTo consider the dynamic and ever-challenging business environment, this research examined the contingency of big data analytics (BDA) and entrepreneurial orientation (EO). The multi-source and multilevel data used for this research were gathered from 195 manufacturing firms listed on the Pakistan stock exchange by employing a time-lagged design and survey strategy. Additionally, for hypothesis testing, multilevel path analysis was conducted in MPlus.FindingsThe authors uncovered the sequential mediation mechanisms of organizational innovation (OI) and competitive advantage (CA) on the relationship between individual-level employee innovative job performance (EIJP) and firms' financial performance (FFP) based on the resource-based view. The authors noted positive and significant sequential mediation of OI and CA on the effect of EIJP on FFP. Similarly, the relationship between EIJP and OI was found to be stronger when the boundary conditions of BDA and EO were higher than when they were lower.Originality/valueThis research offers new practical insights for managers and organizational practitioners to better value their EIJP, and due diligence is required when employing BDA and EO to attain a competitive edge over competitors and increase financial performance.

Teleworking in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Teleworkers who live and work in the same space are vulnerable to conflicts between personal life and work (LWC). The Covid-19 lockdowns increased the intensity and risk of LWC and changed telework conditions, confronting teleworkers with difficult personal situations and often ill-equipped telework environments. To develop a better understanding of the effects of different LWC dimensions (e.g., time, strain, behavior) on work exhaustion, job satisfaction, routine and innovative job performance and the role of the IT telework environment among teleworkers in the Covid-19 pandemic, a research model based on a sample of 249 teleworkers was developed and validated. The findings show that LWC has adverse effects on job outcomes and that the IT telework environment moderates these effects. The study contributes to the telework and role conflict literature by revealing the essential role of the IT telework environment and by differentiating between routine and innovative job performance among teleworkers.

A Person-Environment Fit Model to Explain Information and Communication Technologies-Enabled After-Hours Work-Related Interruptions in China.

Given the ubiquitous nature of mobile devices and information and communication technologies (ICT), after-hours work-related interruptions (AHWI) occur anywhere and anytime in China. In the current study, an alternative person-environment (P-E) fit model of ICT-enabled AHWI, hereafter referred to as IAWI, that treats polychronic variables as moderated solutions are presented. A cross-sectional survey among 277 Chinese employees (average age: 32.04 years) was conducted in September 2022 and tested by PLS-structural equation modeling to validate our hypotheses. The results indicated that IAWI had a positive influence on employees' innovative job performance and in-role job performance (β = 0.139, p < 0.05; β = 0.200, p < 0.01; β = 0.298, p < 0.001). Moreover, among employees with higher levels of polychronicity, the heightened effects of IAWI on innovative job performance were increased (β = 0.112, p < 0.05). This study offers implications for employees: under IAWI situations, they could search for a person-environment (P-E) that is fit to buffer the negative aspects of IAWI, consequently increasing their innovative job performance and in-role job performance. Future research could extend beyond this framework to explore employees' IAWI and job performance balance.

Cultivating knowledge sharing among academics: the role of social media and the impact of social capital

A research model grounded in social capital theory was tested to examine the influence of social media on the formation of social capital. Facets of social capital in cultivating knowledge sharing were hypothesized to have a relationship with routine and innovative job performance. The analysis uses a structural equation modeling to examine the behavior of 290 faculty members at one higher education institution in Kuwait. The results reveal that social media has a significant role in the formation of social capital. However, trust and shared vision were the only social capital facets that emerged as determinants of knowledge sharing. Knowledge sharing had an impact on innovative job performance.

Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy in the Relationship between Psychological Capital and Innovative Job Performance of Teachers

Background and Aim: Education, as one of the most important and broadest social organizations, plays a very important role in the process of socialization and socialization of the society. Therefore, the current research was conducted to determine the mediating role of self-efficacy in the relationship between psychological capital and innovative job performance of primary school teachers in Karaj. Methods: This research is practical in terms of purpose; In terms of the type of data, little; In terms of the nature of the research, it was descriptive-correlational. The socio-statistics of the research were all primary school teachers in Karaj city. 242 people were selected based on the calculation of the sample size in structural equations and the stepwise cluster random sampling method. Data collection tools were the researcher-made questionnaire. Data analysis was carried out in descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, etc.) and inferential (Pearson correlation and structural equation modeling) through Spss-V23 and LISREL-V8.8 software. Results: It showed that there is a relationship between psychological capital (0.63) and self-efficacy (0.57) on innovative job performance; Also, self-efficacy plays a mediating role in the relationship between psychological capital and self-efficacy (0.74). Conclusion: It can be concluded that self-efficacy plays a mediating role in the relationship between psychological capital and innovative job performance of teachers.

Potential of Passive Employees: How Servant Leadership Can Stimulate Innovation among Control-Oriented Employees

Depending on the organizational context, a control orientation on the part of an employee may either inhibit or promote their innovative job performance. To explore the question of which external conditions are conducive to control-oriented employees’ innovative potential, this study examined the effects of servant leadership on control-oriented employees’ motivation internalization processes and innovative job performance from a self-determination theory perspective. This study was conducted in Jiangsu, Shanghai, and Anhui provinces, which are relatively developed high-tech industries in China. An analysis of paired data from 298 employees and their leaders in nine technology-intensive companies revealed that servant leadership plays a positive moderating role between control orientation and employees’ autonomous motivation. Moreover, the interaction between control orientation and servant leadership can affect innovative job performance through the mediation of identified regulation, but not through that of integrated regulation. These findings are beneficial in promoting healthy development and innovative job performance of control-oriented employees, and are instructive for sustainable human resource management. Organizations should recognize the creative potential of control-oriented employees, promote servant leadership, leverage its management strengths, and focus on enhancing employees’ sense of identification with their jobs.

Employees' reactions to CSR perception and disclosure in the presence of multilevel contingencies

PurposePrimarily, this research aims to examine how and when firm-level corporate social responsibility (CSR) translates into individual-level attitudes and behaviors of employees under cross-level boundary conditions of firm-level family ownership (FO) and group-level ethical leadership.Design/methodology/approachPhilosophically, the present research comes under the post-positivist paradigm, with a deductive approach. The multilevel, multisource and multimethod data for this research were collected by employing a time-lagged design through the survey strategy and from annual reports of 60 manufacturing firms in Pakistan. The multilevel path analysis was conducted using MPlus.FindingsThe authors found that organizational identification (OID) statistically and significantly mediates the impact of firms' CSR disclosure on employees' innovative job performance (EIJP). However, the partial mediation of OID between firm-level CSR perception and EIJP was noticed. Moreover, a firm-level contingency of FO and group-level ethical leadership further intensifies the impact of CSR disclosure and perception on EIJP through OID.Research limitations/implicationsTheoretically, this research widens the current understanding of employees' reactions to firms' CSR disclosure and perception by investigating the contingencies of firm-level FO and group-level ethical leadership. Practically, the managers can consider the underlying framework presented in this research in defining CSR as the antecedent of the OID and EIJP. For example, organizations must deliberately concentrate on not only their CSR initiatives and engagements but also immense attentiveness should be given to CSR disclosure because disclosing CSR will assist the top management in achieving the desired workplace attitudes and behaviors of employees. This research will also help business leaders to understand the integration of CSR and ethical leadership while making CSR-related strategic decisions.Originality/valueExisting research on CSR still needs advancement due to competing explanations, inconsistencies in the findings, and a lack of multilevel studies. Although few studies on CSR have considered multilevel aspects by devising and testing multilevel mechanisms but largely remained deficient concerning cross-level boundary conditions. Furthermore, the authors also noticed that the academic literature predominantly analyses the impact of perceived CSR either at the individual level or the firm aggregated level on employee attitudes and behaviors. However, research on the effect of organizational CSR disclosure on the behaviors and attitudes of employees remains scarce.

Deviant Affordances: When Tensions, Deadlocks, and Nonconformance Generate Performance

Novel information technologies (ITs), such as mobile devices and third-party cloud services, offer users an increasing variety of action possibilities, i.e., affordances. Organizational IT policies, however, often specify their actualization—i.e., turning those affordances into action—as undesired. Organizations face the challenge that to reach their goals, employees still frequently take advantage of these affordances by using undesired ITs and thereby deviate from IT policies. Although prior work has extensively studied how goal-oriented users actualize affordances that are associated with outcomes that support organizational goals, little attention has been paid to the structures, mechanisms, and conditions underlying affordances that deviate from organizational IT policies. We conceptualize these affordances as deviant affordances. Leveraging the orders of change framework and using a multimethod research design integrating interview and experimental studies, we identify three key mechanisms underlying deviant affordances—i.e., tension, deadlock, and actualization mechanisms—that can link together to produce a deviant outcome supporting both the users’ individual goal and an organizational goal. Our work explains the importance of users’ perceived deadlock in stimulating the generation of deviant outcomes that support organizational goals through improving task, contextual, and innovative job performance.

Understanding Social Media Usage at Work from the Perspective of Social Capital Theory

With the pervasive use of social media (SM) in organizations, it is regarded as a relevant driver that can influence an employee’s job performance. This study fills in the gap that extends the job performance concept by discovering the role of SM in innovative performance in introducing new ideas beyond standard specifications to produce novel and valuable organizational outcomes. By adopting the social capital theory (SCT), the present study investigates the roles of social media use at work in predicting social capital (network ties, shared vision, and trust) that might promote work engagement and subsequently affect employees’ innovative job performance. The data was collected through an online survey, and 291 Malaysian employees participated. The partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) technique was applied in data analysis for the measurement model and structural model used in this study. Findings show that SM use at work significantly predicts network ties, shared vision, and trust. Besides, network ties and trust positively promoted work engagement except for shared vision. Subsequently, work engagement was associated with innovative job performance. This study provides theoretical and practical implications for extending knowledge, as well as mitigating plans and efforts to resolve employees’ performance concerning the issues of SM use at work.

The Effect of WhatsApp Usage on Employee Innovative Performance at the Workplace: Perspective from the Stressor-Strain-Outcome Model.

Social media applications have increasingly become a valuable platform for personal communication and knowledge sharing in working life. Several researchers have considered the direct role of social media usage in influencing job performance. However, limited studies explore how social media use may impact employees' job performance, especially in innovativeness. Moreover, inconsistencies in the findings exist in the literature regarding whether social media improves employees' job performance or causes harm. By adapting the stressor-strain-outcome (SSO) model, the present study investigates how WhatsApp use at work can predict social media overloads that might induce technostress and, subsequently, affect employees' innovative job performance. Thus, 206 Malaysian employees from the government and private sectors participated in this study and the data were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The findings show that social media, predominantly WhatsApp, used at work has a mild but statistically significant influence on information overload, communication overload, and social overload. In addition, information overload and communication overload positively influence technostress, except for social overload. Subsequently, technostress does not have an impact on innovative job performance. This study provides theoretical and practical implications for extending the knowledge and mitigating plans and efforts to improve employees' performance at work. Therefore, this study helps mitigate the dearth of research pertaining to the roles of social media use at work on employees' innovative job performance.

The Moderating Effect of Goal Orientations on the Conflict and Innovative Performance Relationship

Research has found both positive and negative effects of interpersonal conflict on performance outcomes such as decision making, individual and group performance, employees’ satisfaction, and individual and team creativity. However, little is known about the relationship between interpersonal conflict and employees’ innovative job performance. Accordingly, in the current study, we investigated the link between task, process and relationship conflicts and employees’ innovative job performance and the moderating effect of employees’ mastery and performance goal orientations. We analyzed the data collected from 448 employees working in different organizations in Pakistan. The results indicated that task, process and relationship conflicts are all negatively related to employees’ innovative job performance. However, employees’ mastery goal orientation weakens while performance goal orientation strengthens this negative relationship. This study contributes to the debates on the outcomes of interpersonal conflict by highlighting the importance of employees’ goal orientation for understanding the interpersonal conflict - innovative job performance relationship.

Innovative Job Performance: The Role of Knowledge and Social Capital Sharing Background (Case Study of West Mazandaran Electricity Offices)

سرمایه اجتماعی در محل کار منجر به تسهیل اشتراک‌گذاری دانش از طریق دسترسی به دانش مرتبط برای نوآوری تقویت‌شده در سازمان می‌شوند. هدف این پژوهش بررسی تاثیر اشتراک‌گذاری دانش و سرمایه اجتماعی بر عملکرد شغلی نوآورانه کارکنان می‌باشد. روش پژوهش به لحاظ ماهیت توصیفی-همبستگی و از حیث هدف کاربردی است. جامعه آماری پژوهش را کارکنان ادارات برق غرب استان مازندران به تعداد 187 نفر تشکیل دادند که از این تعداد، تعداد 124 نفر بر اساس جدول کرجسی و مورگان و به روش نمونه گیری تصادفی طبقه ای به عنوان حجم نمونه پژوهش انتخاب شدند. ابزار گردآوری شامل پرسشنامه های اشتراک‌گذاری دانش کانلی و همکاران (2012), سرمایه اجتماعی از پرسشنامه استاندارد پوتنام (1999) و عملکرد شغلی نوآورانه اسکات و براس (1994) بود. به منظور تحلیل داده‎ها از تکنیک معادلات ساختاری با استفاده از نرم افزار آماری Lisrel و نیز نرم افزار آماری Spss22 استفاده شد. یافته های پژوهش نشان داد که سرمایه اجتماعی و اشتراک دانش بر عملکرد شغلی نوآورانه تاثیر مثبت و معناداری دارند و مولفه اعتماد به سازمان بیشترین قدرت تاثیر را بر سرمایه اجتماعی و اشتراک گذاری دانش داشته است. نتایج پژوهش نشان داد که اشتراک گذاری دانش در تاثیرگذاری سرمایه اجتماعی بر عملکرد شغلی نوآورانه بطور فزاینده ای نقش میانجی داشته است.

Effects of corporate reputation and social identity on innovative job performance

PurposeThis study analyzes the indirect effects of corporate reputation and social identity on innovative job performance, through organization engagement.Design/methodology/approachA single entity survey was conducted with the employees of a unicorn startup, which is the largest financial services startup (fintech) in Brazil, and the data were analyzed using structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA).FindingsThe results present empirical evidence that corporate reputation and social identity (employee-company identification) are able to stimulate innovative job performance, mediated by organization engagement. In addition to these symmetrical relationships, asymmetrically, combinations of these constructs with different education levels, age and tenure promote high innovative job performance.Research limitations/implicationsThe study has theoretical implications to the extent that the precepts of the social identity theory are observed, by verifying the direct influence of corporate reputation and employee-company identification on organization engagement. It also has implications for presenting an indirect positive effect of corporate reputation and employee-company identity on innovative job performance.Practical implicationsIt contributes by providing subsidies for the company to find to keep employees engaged and prone to innovation, which represents an important managerial parameter and competitive advantage.Originality/valueThe literature points to the need to identify antecedents of innovative job performance. It is postulated that corporate reputation and social identity can indirectly reflect on innovative job performance, mediated by organizational engagement.

The Compensatory Protective Effects of Social Support at Work in Presenteeism During the Coronavirus Disease Pandemic

The present study investigated the lasting effects of sickness presenteeism on well-being and innovative job performance in the demanding Chinese work context compounded with the precarities of the post-pandemic business environment. Adopting the conservation of resources (COR) theory perspective, especially its proposition of compensation of resources, we incorporated social resources at work (supervisory support and collegial support) as joint moderators in the presenteeism–outcomes relationship. We employed a panel design in which all variables were measured twice with 6 months in between. Data were obtained from 323 Chinese employees working in diverse industries in Taiwan. We found that after controlling for the baseline level of well-being, presenteeism did not have a lasting effect on employees' exhaustion. However, presenteeism did have a negative lasting effect on employees' innovative behavior 6 months later. Moreover, we found a significant three-way interaction of presenteeism, supervisory support, and collegial support on employees' innovative job performance, after controlling for the baseline level of performance. Specifically, when working under illness, employees displayed the best innovative performance with high levels of both supervisory and collegial support, the worst performance with both support being low, and the intermediate when any one of the support being high. This can be taken as the preliminary evidence to support the COR proposition of resource caravans, showing that supervisory support and collegial support compensated for each other as critical resources in alleviating the impact of working under sickness on employees' innovative performance. Theoretical implications of the findings are discussed, taking into account the macro-cultural context of the East Asian Confucian societies. We also reflected on the managerial implications of the lasting damages of sickness presenteeism and benefits of mobilizing social resources on employees' well-being and performance.

Corporate social responsibility and firms’ financial performance: a multi-level serial analysis underpinning social identity theory

This research aims to investigate how firms’ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) perception and disclosure derive accounting, market, and perception-based Firms’ Financial Performance (FFP) through the serial mediation of individual-level organizational identification (OID) and employees' innovative job performance (EIJP). Philosophically, this research comes under the beliefs or worldview of postpositivism and employed a quantitative research design. And thus, the approach to theory development is deductive. Multi-method, multi-source and multilevel data with temporal breaks are collected from 60 manufacturing firms listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSE). Primary data are collected by following the survey strategy and by conducting multiple surveys. While the secondary data are collected from the annual and sustainability reports published by selected firms on their official websites. This research found the serial mediation of OID and employees’ innovative job performance on the CSR-FFP relationship. Our results will assist the management of the firms to understand the strategic implications of their CSR initiatives. In particular, this research contributed to understand why CSR is viewed to have strategic importance for the firms and how social identity theory (SIT) might be utilized in such endeavors.

How temporal leadership boosts employee innovative job performance

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine how temporal leadership relates to employee innovative job performance through pro-social rule breaking for efficiency (PSRB_E) and vigor. As such, it draws from both motivational and affective perspectives to investigate the way in which leaders manage employees' time to boost employee innovation at work.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts a two-source survey with coworker dyads from multiple organizations in China. Two hundred and three focal employees rated temporal leadership, time pressure and vigor. Each focal employee was rated by a coworker on PSRB_E and innovative job performance. Structural equation modeling (SEM) and bootstrapping techniques are used to examine the hypothesized relationships with theRpackage for latent variable analysis (i.e. lavaan).FindingsThe results suggest that temporal leadership positively relates to employees' innovative job performance through the mediations of their PRSB_E and vigor, respectively.Originality/valueThis study is one of the first that sought to understand the effect of temporal leadership on employee innovative job performance. It also casts light upon the motivational and affective mechanisms underlying such a linkage.