Abstract
In the realm of innovation, relying solely on the creativity of researchers may not fully unleash their potential. Previous studies revealed the positive impact of academic justice climate on researchers’ behavior, the impact of individual characteristics and work state on the effect has been underexplored. Based on the theory of the job demands resource, this study proposed the connotation of academic justice climate, spiritual creativity and spiritual depletion, and explore the impact of academic justice climate on innovation performance was investigated from two paths: spiritual creativity and spiritual depletion. Which involved the mediating role of work involvement and job burnout, along with the moderating roles of sensitivity and perceived organizational support. Data were collected from 289 researchers in universities and research institutions in China. Statistical analysis was conducted using regression analysis. On the one hand, the result shows respectively the definition about three terms, Academic justice climate refers to work resource availability including resource acquisition and resource created by research leaders from their own subjective preferences and profit-orientation. Spiritual creativity refers to individual under certain security environment can fully stimulate their personal potential to produce creation. Spiritual depletion refers to individual under certain insecurity or threatened environment, would be stuck in a painful situation, or negative mood and unable to move on. On the other hand, the results of analysis statistically support the hypothesized indirect relationship between the academic justice climate and researchers’ innovation performance. Work involvement and job burnout play a completely mediating role in the above relationships. Sensitivity positively regulates the impact of the academic justice climate on work involvement. Perceived organizational support positively regulates the impact of academic justice climate on job burnout. This research results show how and when academic justice climate can enhance researchers’ innovation performance, these findings not only contribute to enrich job demand resource theory, but also provide research organizations and researchers valuable reference about spiritual health management.
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Song, Q., Qian, Z. & Zhang, X. Is an academic justice climate effective? The moderation role of sensitivity and perceived organizational support on the impact of academic justice climate on innovation performance: a double-intermediary model of spiritual health system. Curr Psychol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-05814-y
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