家庭支持型主管影响员工创新行为的内部机理与边界条件

The Underlying Mechanism and Boundary Conditions of Family Supportive Supervision on Employee Innovative Behavior

旨在探讨家庭支持型主管行为(FSSB)对员工创新行为的影响机制。基于资源保存理论与社会认知理论,提出一般自我效能的中介作用与性别(包括员工性别和主管性别)的调节作用。一项针对已婚且育有子女的员工三阶段问卷调查(研究1,n=222)显示,FSSB显著正向影响员工一般自我效能,一般自我效能显著正向影响员工创新行为,且在FSSB与员工创新行为之间起中介作用。上述关系受到员工性别的调节作用,当员工为女性时,上述直接和间接影响关系均显著;当员工为男性时则不显著。一项主管-下属配对问卷调查(研究2,员工n=158,主管n=32)重复支持了上述结果,并补充发现主管性别能够调节FSSB与员工一般自我效能之间的正向影响关系。当主管为男性时,该正向影响关系更强。上述结果细化了家庭支持型主管与员工创新行为之间的关系机理,同时也能为创新管理提供启发。

The purpose of this research is to explore the effect of family supportive supervisor behavior(FSSB)on employee innovation.Drawing on the conservation of resources theory and social cognitive theory,this research proposes the mediating role of general self-efficacy and the moderating role of gender(including employees’gender and supervisors’gender).The results of a three-wave survey on married employees with children(Study 1,n=222)show that FSSB has a positive impact on employee general self-efficacy.General self-efficacy has a positive impact on employee innovative behavior,further,mediates the relationship between FSSB and employee innovative behavior.These direct and indirect relationships are moderated by employees’gender,such that they are significant for female employees.These findings are replicated by a subordinate-supervisor matched survey study(Study 2,employee n=158,supervisor n=32).Moreover,supervisors’gender moderates the relationship between FSSB and employee general self-efficacy,such that this direct relationship is stronger for male supervisors.This research provides a nuanced view on the linkage between FSSB and employee innovative behavior,and,in the meanwhile,offers some sights into innovation management.