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The innovative power of actual-desired misfit in task identity : the mediating role of job crafting
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Hernaus, Tomislav
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Černe, Matej
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Caniëls, Marjolein C. J.
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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.
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English
Keywords:
organization
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personnel
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knowledge transfer
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innovations
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innovative work behavior
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job crafting
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person-job fit
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task identity
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polynomial regression analysis
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Article
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1.01 - Original Scientific Article
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EF - School of Economics and Business
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In print
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Author Accepted Manuscript
Year:
2023
PID:
20.500.12556/RUL-159655
UDC:
331.108
ISSN on article:
2397-0022
DOI:
10.1177/23970022231197515
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166730499
Publication date in RUL:
17.07.2024
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Title:
German journal of human resource management
Publisher:
SAGE Publications Ltd
ISSN:
2397-0022
COBISS.SI-ID:
23499750
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Slovenian
Keywords:
organizacija
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kadri
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prenos znanja
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inovacije
Projects
Funder:
ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
Project number:
P5-0441
Name:
Regeneracija ekonomije in posla
Funder:
HRZZ - Croatian Science Foundation
Funding programme:
Croatian Science Foundation (CSF)
Project number:
IP-2020-02-8889
Name:
Multilevel organization design configurations: Understanding the heterogeneity–homogeneity duality
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