A Sociopolitical Perspective on Employee Innovativeness and Job Performance: The Role of Political Skill and Network Structure
| Autor: | Virginie Lopez-Kidwell, Meredith Lauren Woehler, Giuseppe Labianca, Emily W. Choi, David Obstfeld, Travis J. Grosser, Stephen P. Borgatti |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Structure (mathematical logic)
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Knowledge management ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION Social network business.industry Strategy and Management 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) Network structure 050109 social psychology Conjunction (grammar) Politics Job performance Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology business ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS 050203 business & management Structural holes |
| Zdroj: | Organization Science. 29:612-632 |
| ISSN: | 1526-5455 1047-7039 |
| Popis: | We adopt a sociopolitical perspective to examine how an employee’s political skill works in conjunction with social network structure to relate to the employee’s innovation involvement and job performance. We find that employee innovation involvement mediates the relationship between political skill and job performance and that the number of structural holes employees have in their social network strengthens the positive relationship between political skill and employee innovation involvement. Hypotheses were tested in a large microprocessor manufacturing firm using a sample of 113 employees responsible for generating technological innovations in support of the development of computer microchips. The results of a constructive replication study among medical professionals provide substantial support for our model. This study’s contribution is in showing that political skill both leads to innovation involvement and enables employees to take advantage of the innovation-enhancing potential of certain social network positions. |
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