A cross-level research on the impact of organizational innovative climate and knowledge sharing on employee innovative behavior

Abstract

Abstract: How to stimulate employees' creativity has been one of the hottest topics of current organizational behavior and innovation management. With organizational innovative climate as an explanatory variable and knowledge sharing level as a mediating variable, this paper tries to build up a cross-level concept model. With the hierarchical linear model, this paper carries out a cross-level analysis on the data of a survey on 352 employees from 34 high-tech enterprises in Pearl River Delta Region. The results indicate that organizational innovative climate has positive and direct influence on individual innovative behavior, and knowledge sharing is a partial cross-level mediator between organizational innovative climate and employee innovative behavior. These findings give us a better understanding of the relationship between organizational innovative climate and employee innovative behavior. The application of these findings can be of some help and guidance for hi-tech companies in stimulating employee creativity.

Key words: organizational innovative climate, knowledge sharing, employee innovative behavior, cross-level analysis

CLC Number:

C936
F270.7

Cao Keyan, Dou Zhiming. A cross-level research on the impact of organizational innovative climate and knowledge sharing on employee innovative behavior[J]. Science Research Management, 2015, 36(12): 83-91.

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