A Research into the Mechanism of How a Combination of Creativity Self-efficacy and Psychological Safety Influences Employees’ Deviant Innovation Behavior

Abstract

Abstract: Groundbreaking achievements brought by employees’ deviant innovation play an important role in realizing the high-quality development in China. However, the literature has not yet studied the formation mechanism of deviant innovation behavior from the motivation perspective. Based on the social cognitive theory, this paper integrates employees’ creative self-efficacy and psychological safety, and introduces performance approaching goal orientation as a mediator from the motivation perspective to explore its influence on deviant innovation behavior. The 468 employee data of three-time nodes from 53 technology firms show that creative self-efficacy and psychological safety can promote employees’ deviant innovation behavior to a different extent, depending on how they are combined together. To be specific, a high-high combination is more able to drive deviant innovation than a low-low combination; a homodromous combination is more able to drive deviant innovation behavior than a heterodromous combination; and a high-low combination is more able to drive deviant innovation than a low-high combination. Employees’ creativity self-efficacy and psychological safety mainly influence their deviant innovation behavior via performance approaching goal orientation. Error management climate positively moderates the mediating role of performance approaching goal orientation. This study provides a new perspective on the formation mechanism of deviant innovation behavior, and provides practical guidance for firms on how to drive employees’ deviant innovation behavior.

Key words: creative self-efficacy, psychological safety, performance approaching goal orientation, error management climate, deviant innovation behavior

Liu Longjun, Long Jing, Liu Ruhong, Wan Wenhai. A Research into the Mechanism of How a Combination of Creativity Self-efficacy and Psychological Safety Influences Employees’ Deviant Innovation Behavior[J]. Management Review, 2024, 36(4): 75-87.

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