Contextual work design and employee innovative work behavior: When does autonomy matter?

ABSTRACT: In environments experiencing fast technological change in which innovative performance is expected, work design research has found that the degree of autonomy positively predicts behavioral and attitudinal work outcomes. Because extant work design research has tended to examine the direct and mediating effects of autonomy on work outcomes such as job satisfaction, examinations of more situational elements and the degree to which the organizational context strengthens or weakens this relationship has been neglected. This study, therefore, takes a context-contingent perspective to investigate the degree to which psychological climate dimensions such as supervisor support, organizational structure and organizational innovation moderate the effects of autonomy (work scheduling autonomy, work m

SUBMITTER: Theurer CP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6171839 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature