The Effect of Idiosyncratic Deals on Employees' Innovation Performance: Empirical Study of a Communication Firm

Abstract

Abstract: Based on social exchange theory and the theory of self-improvement, this study interviews 261 employees from communication firms and investigates the effect of idiosyncratic deals on employees' innovation performance through the mediating roles of felt obligation for constructive change (FOCC) and organization-based self-esteem (OBSE). The empirical results show that the two dimensions of idiosyncratic deals-flexible idiosyncratic deals and developmental idiosyncratic deals-both have a positive effect on employees' innovation performance through felt obligation for constructive change and organization-based self-esteem. That is to say, FOCC and OBSE mediate the relationship of idiosyncratic deals and employees' innovation performance.

Key words: idiosyncratic deals, organizational self-esteem, social exchange, self-enhancement, innovation performance

Wang Xiaojian, Tang Fangcheng, Tian Yuhan. The Effect of Idiosyncratic Deals on Employees' Innovation Performance: Empirical Study of a Communication Firm[J]. Management Review, 2020, 32(9): 220-228,265.

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