Organizational identification and employees’ innovative behavior: the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of creative self-efficacy

Abstract

Purpose

This study aims to investigate the effect of organizational identification to employees’ innovative behavior, the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of creative self-efficacy in the relationship between organizational identification and employees’ innovative behavior.

Design/methodology/approach

This study adopted questionnaires to gather data. The sample of 289 employees working in diverse organizations in China was applied to examine the hypotheses.

Findings

The results indicates that organizational identification is positively related to employees’ innovative behavior and work engagement mediates the relationship between organizational identification and employees’ innovative behavior. In addition, creative self-efficacy enhances the relationship of work engagement and employees’ innovative behavior.

Originality/value

This study builds a system from psychological aspect to behavior, which includes the effect of individual cognition to explain the mechanism of organizational identification on employees’ innovative behavior.

Citation

Zhang, G. and Wang, Y. (2022), "Organizational identification and employees’ innovative behavior: the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of creative self-efficacy", Chinese Management Studies, Vol. 16 No. 5, pp. 1108-1123. https://doi.org/10.1108/CMS-07-2021-0294