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Journal of Management and Business Research, 2021
38（ 1 ）：107-124
DOI： 10.6504/JMBR.202103_38(1).0005 |
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| How do R&D Employees Perform Innovativeness: Examining Uncertainty, Psychological Safety, and Initiative |
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| We examine how psychological safety and initiative contribute to innovativeness from a multilevel perspective. We propose and test a contingent model of innovativeness, reflecting on how the levels of uncertainty interact with individual psychological safety to influence initiative, which in turn leads to innovativeness. Data were collected from 320 employees and 80 leaders from 80 R&D teams. Hypotheses were tested with multilevel structural equation modeling and Monte Carlo bootstrapping methods. Results indicated that individual initiative plays a mediating role in the relationship between psychological safety and innovativeness. The cross-level moderated mediation effect of uncertainty on the indirect effects of psychological safety on innovativeness via individual initiative was supported. The theoretical and practical implications of our research are discussed. |
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| psychological safety, initiative, innovativeness, uncertainty |
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