批判性反思、创新性过程投入与创新行为——来自科技型企业员工的实证研究

Critical Thinking,Creative Process Engagement and Innovation Behavior:The Empirical Study of Technology-Based Enterprises

批判性反思被视为是决定员工创新行为的重要前因变量,但缺乏相关的实证研究,尚未出现关于这种关系的作用机理与传导机制的研究。基于对现有研究缺口的认识,以28家科技型企业的347名员工为调查对象,基于社会认知理论和自我调节理论,构建了包括中介环节的调节效应概念模型。研究结果显示:(1)批判性反思与员工创新行为显著正相关;(2)创新性过程投入在2者关系中起部分中介作用;(3)自我效能感在批判性反思与创新性过程投入之间起调节作用;(4)进一步,自我效能感调节了创新性过程投入对批判性反思—员工创新行为的中介作用。

Given the severe environment with intense competition and unpredictable technology changes, increasing number of organizations realize that critical thinking is a key element to help the organization to get competitive advantage and an important prerequisite for employees promote their innovation. This study proposed and tested a mediated moderation model in which critical thinking influences employee innovation behavior, with creative process engagement as a mediator and self-efficacy as a moderator. Data were collected from 347 members within 28 technological enterprises. The results show that： （1） Critical thinking is positively related to innovation behavior; （2） Creative process engagement partially mediates the relationship between critical thinking and innovation behavior; （3） Self-efficacy moderates the relationship between critical thinking and creative process engagement, that is, the higher the self-efficacy shows that the mediated relationship is stronger; （4） Self-efficacy moderates the mediated relationship between critical thinking and innovation behavior, in other words, creative process engagement mediates the relationship between critical thinking and innovation behavior only when the self-efficacy is limited.