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Relationship between Extraversion and Employees’ Innovative Behavior and Moderating Effect of Organizational Innovative Climate
Yuyan Luo, Zhi Cao, Lu Yin, Huiqin Zhang, Zhong Wang
Abstract
This paper aims to clarify the relationship between extraversion and employees’ innovative and disclose the
moderating effect of organizational innovative climate on that relationship. To this end, 300 employees were
selected from various enterprises in three Chinese cities, and subjected to a questionnaire survey based on the five
factor model (FFM) and 5-point Likert scale. Through statistical regressions, the author explored the effects of
extraversion and organizational innovative climate have on employees’ innovative behavior. Then, the
organizational innovative climate was divided into five dimensions, and the feature activation theory was
implemented to reveal the moderating effect of each dimension on relationship between extraversion and
employees’ innovation. Through the above analysis, it is concluded that extraversion has a positive effect on
employees’ innovative behavior; the five dimensions of organizational innovative climate all exert a positive effect
on employees’ innovative behavior; the resource support in organizational innovative climate has a moderating
effect on the relationship between extraversion and employees’ innovation. The research findings shed new light
on the improvement of organizational innovative and the construction of an innovative country.
Keywords
Extraversion, Employees’ Innovative Behavior, Organizational Innovative Climate, Moderating Effect
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