The Effect of Occupational Embeddedness on Knowledge Employees'Innovative Performance: The Mediating Role of Engagement

Abstract

Abstract:

Based on the fact of the relative independence between the occupational social network and organizational social network, this paper employs embeddedness theory to examine the effect of occupational embeddedness on knowledge employees' innovative perform-ance, by introducing engagement as a mediating variable to build a model with 200 questionnaires collected from financial managers of commercial banks.Most hypotheses are testified, while some in the level of dimensions are not supported.The findings reveal that the fit and scarification dimension of occupational embeddedness have positive effect on innovative performance, the vigor dimension of engage-ment has positive effect on innovative performance, and the fit dimension of occupational embeddedness has positive effect on engage-ment.Moreover, the vigor fully mediates the effect of scarification on innovative behavior, and the effect of fit on innovative outcome as all.The conclusions of this paper make up for the limitations of existing researches by expanding and deepening the knowledge on occu-pational embeddedness, and provide some enlightenments for organization practice.

Key words: occupational embeddedness, engagement, innovative performance

Fu Jingtao. The Effect of Occupational Embeddedness on Knowledge Employees'Innovative Performance: The Mediating Role of Engagement[J]. , 2017, 29(7): 174-186.

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