20.500.12556/RUL-159655 The innovative power of actual-desired misfit in task identity the mediating role of job crafting A degree of task completeness—a consequence of the division of labor and job specialization —might play an important role in employees’ motivation to be creative/innovative. While there is no consensus on whether having well-rounded or task-specialized work is optimal for employees’ innovative work behavior (IWB), we entertain the possibility that the preferred amount of this job attribute may condition individual reactions to a particular task structure. Moving beyond a traditional fit/misfit perspective of perceiving individuals as passive respondents, we expect that task-identity discrepancy (actual versus desired) triggers an employee to respond proactively by exhibiting job crafting, resulting in more frequent IWB. We test our hypotheses with mediated polynomial regression analyses based on a multi-source time-lagged field study of 184 professionals in a European bank and an experimental study with 81 students at an EU-based university. The results indicate that task-identity incongruence indirectly drives IWBs more than congruence. Specifically, both task-identity overfit (actual > desired) and task-identity underfit (desired > actual) are positively predicting IWB through job crafting as a coping mechanism for employees to adjust their work and unleash the innovative power from the experienced incongruence. organization personnel knowledge transfer innovations innovative work behavior job crafting person-job fit task identity polynomial regression analysis organizacija kadri prenos znanja inovacije true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2024-07-17 14:42:16 2024-07-17 14:46:49 2024-07-20 03:27:05 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 [in press] 2023 0000-00-00 PostprintKoncna VTisku NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 331.108 2397-0022 10.1177/23970022231197515 166730499 The_innovative_power_of_actual–desired_misfit_in_task_identity_The_mediating_role_of_job_crafting.pdf The_innovative_power_of_actual–desired_misfit_in_task_identity_The_mediating_role_of_job_crafting.pdf 1 7E28B97FD140E38E2B3EF702577FA2D1 071a1efaf3cf6a7787cc235adf65d5f893b573e0bb8972f042a9c87dbb682537 63d16956-443a-11ef-8f74-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=187775 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23970022231197515 0 70983897-443a-11ef-8f74-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=187776 Ekonomska fakulteta 0 0 0