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The joint impact of perceived influence and supervisor supportiveness on employee innovative behaviour
Author(s) -
Janssen Onne
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of occupational and organizational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 2044-8325
pISSN - 0963-1798
DOI - 10.1348/096317905x25823
Subject(s) - psychology , supervisor , social psychology , work (physics) , questionnaire , work environment , applied psychology , job satisfaction , management , engineering , mechanical engineering , social science , sociology , economics
A questionnaire survey among 170 employees of a Dutch company showed that supervisor supportiveness moderated the relationship between employees' perceived influence in the workplace and their levels of innovative behaviour. As hypothesized, the results suggest that when supervisors are perceived as being supportive of employee innovation, employees feel encouraged to use their influence to carry out innovative activities at work, whereas supervisors perceived as not being supportive inhibit them from doing so.