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  • Organizational Behavior
  • Human Resource Management
  • Innovation Studies

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  • Employee innovation behavior is crucial for organizational success.
  • Understanding the interplay of individual and environmental factors is key to fostering innovation.
  • Previous research has explored goal orientation and psychological capital separately, but their combined effects on innovation behavior within an organizational innovation climate require further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the interaction effects of goal orientation, psychological capital, and organizational innovation climate on employees' innovation behavior.
  • To investigate the mediating role of psychological capital in the relationship between goal orientation and innovation behavior.
  • To explore the moderating effect of organizational innovation climate on the relationship between psychological capital and innovation behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Quantitative study with a sample of 398 employees from Chinese enterprises.
  • Descriptive statistical analyses, multiple regression, and bootstrap approach were used for data analysis.
  • Controlled for demographic variables (gender, age, work experience) and enterprise characteristics (type, industry).

Main Results:

  • Learning goal orientation and proving goal orientation positively influence innovation behavior through psychological capital.
  • The positive association between psychological capital and innovation behavior is strengthened by a supportive organizational innovation climate.
  • The positive impact of learning and proving goal orientations on innovation behavior is more pronounced in high organizational innovation climates via enhanced psychological capital.

Conclusions:

  • Psychological capital and a positive organizational innovation climate are vital for driving employee innovation.
  • Promoting learning and proving goal orientations can enhance innovation behavior, particularly when supported by a strong innovation climate and high psychological capital.
  • Avoiding goal orientation does not significantly impact innovation behavior in this context.