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| How does Strength Use Promote Employees' Innovation? The Role of Harmonious Passion and Platform Leadership |
| Ma Lu1,2,Zheng Yunjian1,Xie Peng3,Wang Danyang4 |
| (1.School of Economics and Management, Guangxi University of Science and Technology, Liuzhou 545006, China;2.School of Management, Guangxi University for Nationalities, Nanning 530006, China;3.School of Business Administration, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang 330032, China;4.School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China) |
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Abstract With the continuous change of business environment, the survival and development of organizations are full of uncertainties and challenges. Innovation has become an important factor for organizational success. Therefore, how to stimulate employee innovation has become an important issue in the field of organizational management.#br#In the existing research on the influencing factors of employee innovation behavior, the relationship between individual factors and employee innovation behavior has been widely concerned by scholars, but the research on the impact of individual behavior variables on innovation behavior is relatively scarce. Few scholars have noticed that employees' positive behavior in the workplace is an important factor in predicting innovation, and strengths use will have an impact on employees' innovative behavior. Strengths use refers to a role behavior in which employees actively use their own strengths in the work process. It can promote employees to obtain positive psychological feelings, enhance their love for work, realize the significance of work and self importance, and promote the generation of harmonious passion. Harmonious passion is an autonomous and internalized work passion with strong stability and sustainability. As a positive emotional expression, it is an internal driving force to promote employees' innovation. Therefore, this paper speculates that strengths use will enhance employees' harmonious passion and further promote employees' innovative behavior. According to the self-determination theory, in the process of employee strengths use, the generation of harmonious work passion needs to be supported by the cultivation and support of the social environment, and the platform leadership is likely to have a contingency impact on the process of strengths use.#br#The existing research has not explored the relationship between strengths use and employee innovation behavior. In order to reveal its internal mechanism, this paper follows the self-determination theory, uses three-stage tracking survey data to construct and verify the influencing mechanism of employee strengths use on employee innovation behavior; it also investigates the mediating effect of harmonious passion and the moderating effect of platform leadership. Through the statistical analysis of 341 valid questionnaires, the study verifies that harmonious passion mediates the positive relation of employee strengths use with employee innovation behavior. Platform leadership not only positively moderates the positive influence of employee strengths use on the harmonious passion, but also moderates the indirect effect of employee strengths use on employee innovation behavior through harmonious passion.#br#This study has made some important contributions to the existing literature. First of all, through the in-depth discussion of the impact of strengths use on innovation behavior, this study confirms the positive role of strengths use in promoting employee innovation behavior, and also responds to the mechanism proposed by relevant scholars to prove the impact of employee strengths use on human resource management performance from an empirical perspective. Secondly,harmonious passion is confirmed to play a mediating role between strengths use and employee innovation behavior, further revealing the "black box" between strengths use and employee innovation behavior. It further illustrates how employees affect their innovation behavior through strengths use. Finally, by exploring the moderating role of platform leadership in strengths use and harmonious passion, the study conforms to the characteristics of organizational dynamics and employees' autonomy in the era of platform economy, and also responds to the call of relevant scholars to pay attention to the impact of external situational factors on employee strengths use, providing a new theoretical explanation for further revealing the mechanism of strengths use on employee innovation behavior.#br#This study also has important guiding significance for management practice. First of all, organizational managers should pay attention to the problems related to strengths use in their work, provide external environmental support for the use of employees' strengths, and avoid the waste of employees' strengths resources to cause losses to individuals and organizations. Secondly, strengths use promotes the innovation behavior of employees by influencing their harmonious passion, which shows that while the organization manages the use of employees' strengths, it should also pay attention to the role of harmonious passion in the workplace. Organizational leaders should give employees full autonomy, help employees realize their basic psychological needs, create a harmonious working environment for employees, and play an exemplary role to encourage employees to internalize their work.#br#
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Received: 07 June 2021
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