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Job Design and the Employee Innovation Process: The Mediating Role of Learning Strategies

verfasst von: David Holman, Peter Totterdell, Carolyn Axtell, Chris Stride, Rebecca Port, Ruth Svensson, Lara Zibarras

Erschienen in: Journal of Business and Psychology | Ausgabe 2/2012

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this article is to examine whether employee learning strategies is a mechanism through which job design affects the employee innovation process. In particular, we test whether work-based learning strategies mediate the relationship between job design characteristics (job control and problem demand) and key components of the innovation process (idea generation, idea promotion, and idea implementation).

Design/Methodology/Approach

Data were collected from a survey of 327 employees in a UK manufacturing organization.

Findings

Structural equation modeling confirmed the mediating role of learning strategies in the relationship between job design and idea generation. The effects of job control on idea generation were mediated by work-based learning strategies and the effects of problem demand on idea generation were partially mediated by work-based learning strategies. Problem demand also had a direct relationship with idea generation and idea promotion. The findings provide support for the general idea that learning is a mechanism thorough which job design affects outcomes.

Implications

The results of the study show practitioners that creating jobs with high control or high problem demand can help to promote the employee innovation process; and that this is partly due to the role that such jobs play in stimulating the use of learning strategies at work.

Originality/Value

This article develops and tests a new theoretical model that explains how learning is a route through which job design influences employee innovation.

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Titel: Job Design and the Employee Innovation Process: The Mediating Role of Learning Strategies
verfasst von: David Holman
Peter Totterdell
Carolyn Axtell
Chris Stride
Rebecca Port
Ruth Svensson
Lara Zibarras
Publikationsdatum: 01.06.2012
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Journal of Business and Psychology / Ausgabe 2/2012
Print ISSN: 0889-3268
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-353X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-011-9242-5

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