Collectivism and employees' innovative behavior: The mediating role of team identification and the moderating role of leader‐member exchange. (8th January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Song, Derun; Liu, Hefu; Gu, Jibao; He, Changqing
• Is Part Of: Creativity and innovation management. Volume 27:Number 2(2018)
• Page Start: 221
• Page End: 231
• Publication Date: 2018-01-08
• Subjects: Creative ability in business -- Periodicals; Organizational change -- Periodicals; 658.57; 658
• DOI: 10.1111/caim.12253
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0963-1690

Abstract

Abstract : Based on the social identity theory and leader‐member exchange (LMX) literature, the present study examined the underlying relationship between employees' collectivism and their innovative behavior. Specifically, we explored the mediating role of team identification and the moderating role of LMX in the above relationship. Results from a survey of 457 employees in 30 organizations indicate that employees' team identification partially mediates the relationship between their collectivism and innovative behavior, and that this mediating relationship has conditional effects on the moderator variable LMX. The findings contribute to the literature by clarifying how (through team identification) and when (based on LMX) employees' collectivism is related positively to their innovative behavior.