Effect and mechanism of proactive personality on employee innovative behavior

Pang Jiantao, Wen Ke

Science Research Management ›› 2017, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (1) : 12-20.

Science Research Management ›› 2017, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (1) : 12-20.

Effect and mechanism of proactive personality on employee innovative behavior

  • Pang Jiantao1, Wen Ke2
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The relationship between proactivity and employee innovative behavior has always been a hot topic in the field of innovation microscopic research. However, the studies have ignored the mechanism. Based on cognitive - motivation theory, the paper discusses the mechanism of proactive personality and employee innovative behavior . An empirical research is conducted with effective data of 247 employees from pharmaceutical biotech companies of China, exploring the relaionships of employee innovative behavior (EIB), proactive personality (PP), innovative self-efficacy (ISE), innovative outcome-expectation ( IOE). The results show that there are significant correlations between the above variables,and PP indirectly affects employee innovative behavior via multiple mediating of ISE and IOE.

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employee innovative behavior / proactive personality / innovative self-efficacy / innovative outcome expectation / confirmatory factor analysis / pathway analysis

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Pang Jiantao, Wen Ke. Effect and mechanism of proactive personality on employee innovative behavior[J]. Science Research Management. 2017, 38(1): 12-20

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