Antecedents of innovative behaviour: the moderating role of psychological empowerment

Abstract

The present study examines antecedents of innovative behaviour, including innovative climate, person-organisation fit, and psychological empowerment. Besides its direct effect, psychological empowerment is tested as a variable that moderates relationships from innovative climate and person-organisation fit to innovative behaviour. Data were collected from 255 employees working in two prominent state-owned corporations in Vietnam. Smart PLS 4 is utilised to test the proposed hypotheses. The findings revealed that all three researched antecedents significantly impact innovative behaviour. The findings also demonstrated the moderating role of psychological empowerment on the relationship from person-organisation fit to innovative behaviour. However, no statistical evidence confirms the innovative climate-innovative behaviour linkage being moderated by psychological empowerment. The current study provides a holistic model that includes those three important factors simultaneously impacting innovative behaviour. Besides, the moderating role of psychological empowerment is also tested