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1School of Economics and Management, North China University of Technology, Beijing, China.
Frontiers in Psychology
|December 29, 2022
Summary
A paradox mindset helps employees innovate by boosting confidence and balancing exploration with exploitation. This approach enhances individual innovation performance.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Behavior
- Innovation Management
- Social Cognitive Theory
Background:
- Individual innovation involves balancing contradictory behaviors like creativity vs. habit and exploration vs. exploitation.
- The agentic nature and influencing factors of innovative behaviors, especially balancing competing demands, are underexplored.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose and test a chain-mediating model explaining how a paradox mindset influences innovative performance.
- To investigate the mediating roles of role breadth self-efficacy (RBSE) and individual ambidexterity in this relationship.
Main Methods:
- A longitudinal study using data from 480 employees and 100 supervisors across three time points.
- Structural equation modeling was employed to analyze the proposed chain-mediating model.
Main Results:
- A paradox mindset positively influences innovative performance.
- Role breadth self-efficacy (RBSE) and individual ambidexterity sequentially mediate the relationship between a paradox mindset and innovative performance.
- A paradox mindset enhances perceived capability for expanded roles, encouraging exploration-exploitation switching and innovative behaviors.
Conclusions:
- Employees with a paradox mindset proactively manage tensions between exploration and exploitation, leading to creative benefits.
- Organizations can foster individual innovation by enhancing employees' proactive motivation and behavioral capabilities, particularly their paradox mindset.
Keywords:
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