Are you really doing good things in your boss's eyes? Interactive effects of employee innovative work behavior and leader–member exchange on supervisory performance ratings. Issue 1 (18th August 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Schuh, Sebastian C.; Zhang, Xin‐an; Morgeson, Frederick P.; Tian, Peng; van Dick, Rolf
• Is Part Of: Human resource management. Volume 57:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 397
• Page End: 409
• Publication Date: 2017-08-18
• Subjects: employee innovation -- innovative work behavior -- leader‐member exchange -- LMX -- performance appraisal -- performance ratings; 658.3005
• DOI: 10.1002/hrm.21851
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0090-4848

Abstract

Abstract : Organizations increasingly depend on employee efforts to innovate. However, the quality of relationships between leaders and employees may affect the recognition that employees receive for their innovative work behaviors. Drawing from a social cognition perspective, we tested a model in which leader–member exchange (LMX) moderates the impact of employee innovative work behavior on supervisory ratings of employee performance. Results from two multisource studies combining self, colleague, and supervisor ratings consistently showed that employees receive more favorable performance ratings by engaging in innovative work behavior when they have high‐quality LMX relationships. Moreover, we found that this interactive relationship was mediated by leader perceptions of innovative employee efforts, providing support for a moderated mediation model. Implications for the literatures on performance appraisal, LMX, and innovation are discussed.