One requirement, multiple insights: The impact of innovation job requirement on employee radical and incremental creativity

IF 10.5 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Journal of Business Research Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI:10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115395

Xin Qi , Xiyao Liu , Xiaoyan Zhang , Yuhuan Xia , Shasha Liu , Hui Lin , Ziyao Wang

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Abstract

Organizations are increasingly incorporating innovation into job requirements to encourage employees to generate and implement novel ideas (i.e., enhance employees’ creativity). Despite extensive research on the impact of innovation job requirements on creativity, the findings remain inconsistent, being either positive or negative. To address this issue, drawing on the regulatory focus theory, we focused on employees’ different types of creativity and explored how innovation job requirements impact employees’ radical versus incremental creativity. Through a questionnaire survey of 485 employees and 124 direct supervisors from two high-tech firms and one manufacturing firm in China, the empirical results indicated that innovation job requirements promoted expected image gains for promotion-focused employees, whereas for prevention-focused employees, innovation job requirements fostered incremental creativity by heightening expected image risks. These findings contribute valuable insights to research on innovation job requirements and creativity and provide practical guidance for organizations to foster employees’ different types of creativity.

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一个要求，多重洞察：创新工作要求对员工激进创造力和增量创造力的影响

组织越来越多地将创新纳入工作要求，以鼓励员工产生和实施新颖的想法（即提高员工的创造力）。尽管对创新工作要求对创造力的影响进行了广泛的研究，但研究结果仍然不一致，要么是积极的，要么是消极的。为了解决这一问题，我们借鉴监管焦点理论，关注员工不同类型的创造力，探讨创新工作要求对员工激进型和增量型创造力的影响。通过对两家高科技企业和一家制造业企业的485名员工和124名直接主管的问卷调查，实证结果表明，创新工作要求对晋升型员工的预期形象收益有促进作用，而对预防型员工的预期形象风险有促进增量创造力的作用。这些发现为创新工作需求与创造力的研究提供了有价值的见解，并为组织培养员工不同类型的创造力提供了实践指导。

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Journal of Business Research BUSINESS-

CiteScore

20.30

自引率

10.60%

发文量

956

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