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Goal Orientation and Innovative Performance: The Mediating Roles of Knowledge Sharing and Perceived Autonomy
Author(s) -
Lu Lin,
Lin Xiaowan,
Leung Kwok
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2012.01018.x
Subject(s) - autonomy , psychology , goal orientation , social psychology , orientation (vector space) , knowledge management , computer science , political science , geometry , mathematics , law
This study examined the effects of learning goal orientation on individual innovative performance and the mediating mechanisms involved. Based on a survey of 248 employees and their supervisors from diverse industries in C hina, the results showed that learning goal orientation was positively associated with innovative performance, with knowledge sharing as a significant mediator. Unexpectedly, job autonomy was not able to mediate the relationship between learning goal orientation and innovative performance. Exploratory analysis showed that the direct effect of performance goal orientation on innovative performance was insignificant, but it had a weak indirect effect on innovative performance through perceived job autonomy. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.