心理科学
心理科學
심이과학
Psychological Science
2015年
4期
966~972
,共null页
团队心理安全感 知识分享 成员创新行为 多层次中介效应
糰隊心理安全感 知識分享 成員創新行為 多層次中介效應
단대심리안전감 지식분향 성원창신행위 다층차중개효응
team psychological safety, knowledge sharing, members' innovative behavior, multilevel mediation
采用问卷调查法,以珠三角地区高科技企业61个工作团队的387名员工为调查对象,在控制被试的教育水平、工作年限及人口统计学变量后,运用多层线性模型技术考察团队心理安全感、知识分享及成员创新行为之间的关系。结果表明:(1)团队心理安全感对知识分享和成员创新行为具有显著的正向促进作用;(2)知识分享是团队心理安全感与成员创新行为之间的跨层次中介变量。
採用問捲調查法,以珠三角地區高科技企業61箇工作糰隊的387名員工為調查對象,在控製被試的教育水平、工作年限及人口統計學變量後,運用多層線性模型技術攷察糰隊心理安全感、知識分享及成員創新行為之間的關繫。結果錶明:(1)糰隊心理安全感對知識分享和成員創新行為具有顯著的正嚮促進作用;(2)知識分享是糰隊心理安全感與成員創新行為之間的跨層次中介變量。
채용문권조사법,이주삼각지구고과기기업61개공작단대적387명원공위조사대상,재공제피시적교육수평、공작년한급인구통계학변량후,운용다층선성모형기술고찰단대심리안전감、지식분향급성원창신행위지간적관계。결과표명:(1)단대심리안전감대지식분향화성원창신행위구유현저적정향촉진작용;(2)지식분향시단대심리안전감여성원창신행위지간적과층차중개변량。
In today’s dynamic and hypercompetitive business environment, individual innovation behavior has become the foundation and source of organizational innovation, and it has an important influence on organizational performance and core competency of enterprises. So “how to stimulate employees’ innovative behavior” has become one of the hottest topics of organizational behavior and innovation management at present. Research shows that team psychological safety plays a significant role in members’ innovative behavior. However, past studies in this domain primarily focused on the positive aspects of leaders’ characteristics and behaviors.Past researches on the mechanism of the team psychological safety to members’ innovative behavior have been carried out, and they were explored mainly from a single horizontal level (individual level), rarely using cross-level research design and hierarchical linear model statistical methods to investigate the impact of team characteristics and individual-level factors on members’ innovative behavior. Also the mechanism and process by which team psychological safety exert its impact have not been adequately explored in the existing literature. In this study, we try to examine the influence of team psychological safety on members’ innovative behavior, and investigate the mediating role of knowledge sharing in the context of Chinese organizations.A structured questionnaire was employed as the research instrument for this study. It consists of three scales designed to measure the variables of interest, namely team psychological safety, knowledge sharing and members’ innovative behavior. Data were collected from 65 work teams comprising 387 members who came from high-tech enterprises located in the Pearl River Delta area. Cronbach’s alpha coefficients for the above measures are from 0.803 to 0.874, showing good measurement reliability. Data aggregation test shows that the organizational level data collected from the individual data aggregation is appropriate. Hierarchical linear model (HLM) was applied to analyze the survey data for testing the hypotheses proposed. With the demographic variables controlled, such as, gender, educational level, work experience and tenure, empirical results reveal that team psychological safety is positively related to knowledge sharing and members’ innovative behavior, knowledge sharing is positively related to members’ innovative behavior, and knowledge sharing is a cross-level mediator between team psychological safety and members’ innovative behavior.Our findings reveal that both team psychological safety and knowledge sharing are positively associated with members’ innovative behavior. The result suggests that knowledge sharing is a key element for promoting members’ innovative behavior. These findings make us understand better the mechanism of action which team psychological safety acts on members’ innovative behavior. Entrepreneurs can do everything possible to improve team psychological safety and knowledge sharing to enhance members’ innovative behavior and organizational innovative performance. At the end of the paper, the theoretical and managerial implications of the findings, limitations, and future research directions are discussed.