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Join forces from top and bottom: The influencial mechanism of job crafting, high-performance work system on employee innovation behavior

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Although proactive “bottom-up” job design such as job crafting can stimulate employees’ autonomy and enthusiasm more than the traditional “top-down” job design, it does not mean that the “top-down” organizational targets, policies, and resource support are not important. Only when the “bottom-up” job crafting is combined with the “top-down” organizational targets, policies and resource support can achieve the best results. In the current study, we mainly explored the effects of job crafting on employee well-being and their innovation behavior, and investigated the moderating role of high-performance work system in this relationship. Data were collected from 333 employees in 38 enterprises through multi-point surveys. Based on the self-determination theory, we found that job crafting has a significantly positive effect on employee innovation behavior. There is a significantly positive correlation between job crafting and employee well-being, and high-performance work system implemented by organization moderates this relationship. Moreover, there is an inverted U-shaped correlation between employee well-being and employee innovation behavior, which means with the increase of employee well-being, their innovation behavior showed a curve change of first rising and then decreasing. Finally, employee well-being mediates the interactive effect of job crafting and high-performance work system on employee innovation behavior.

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  1. The “2” is the level at which the moderator is measured, the first “1” is the level at which the focal predictor is measured, and the last “1” is the level at which the outcome is measured.

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  1. School of Labor Economics, Capital University of Economics and Business, 121 Zhangjialukou, Huaxiang Fengtai District, 100070, Beijing, PR China

    Rentao Miao & Nan Xi

  2. School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuanlu, Haidian District, 100871, Beijing, PR China

    Yi Cao

  3. Human Resource Management Department, China Oceanwide Holdings Group, Minsheng Financial Center, 28 Jianguomen Nei Dajie, Dongcheng District, 100005, Beijing, PR China

    Manman Cheng

  4. School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China, 59 Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, 100872, Beijing, PR China

    Jia Yu

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Miao, R., Cao, Y., Cheng, M. et al. Join forces from top and bottom: The influencial mechanism of job crafting, high-performance work system on employee innovation behavior. Curr Psychol 42, 25917–25930 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03525-w

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