Can Developmental Job Challenges Promote Innovation Performance?——A Multilevel Influence Mechanism Based on the Systems Theory of Motivated Behavior

Abstract

Abstract: The importance of innovation for enterprises is self-evident.Developmental job challenges can improve innovation performance of leaders,but its effect on individuals or teams is still unclear.Based on the systems theory of motivated behavior,we prove the hypotheses through 231 valid leader-subordinate dyads.The results suggest that developmental job challenges are positively related to innovation performance at both individual and team level.Team and leader boundary spanning behavior mediates the effect of developmental job challenges on innovation performance at team level.Individual boundary spanning behavior mediates the effect of developmental job challenges on innovation performance at individual level.Team performance motivational climate negatively moderates the relationship between developmental job challenges to individual boundary spanning behavior and the mediating role of individual boundary spanning behavior.The analysis of FSQCA also confirms the findings above.The conclusions not only enrich the literature on the relationship between developmental job challenges and individual/team innovation performance,but also reveal the multilevel mediating role of boundary spanning behavior and the moderating role of team performance motivational climate.

Key words: developmental job challenges, innovation behavior, boundary spanning behavior, team performance motivational climate, fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis

Song Kuntai, Liu Shengyang, Liu Han, Du Pengcheng. Can Developmental Job Challenges Promote Innovation Performance?——A Multilevel Influence Mechanism Based on the Systems Theory of Motivated Behavior[J]. Management Review, 2022, 34(6): 226-242.

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