Linking the demands-control-support model to innovation: The moderating role of personal initiative on the generation and implementation of ideas

Daniels, Kevin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8620-886X, Wimalasiri, Varuni, Cheyne, Alistair and Story, Vicky (2011) Linking the demands-control-support model to innovation: The moderating role of personal initiative on the generation and implementation of ideas. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 84 (3). pp. 581-598. ISSN 2044-8325

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Abstract

The demands–control–support model indicates that workers can use job control and social support for problem solving. We examined whether personal initiative moderated relationships between, on the one hand, job control used for problem solving and social support used for problem solving and, on the other hand, ideas generation and implementation. We operationalized job control used for problem solving as ‘changing aspects of work activities to solve problems’. We operationalized social support used for problem solving as ‘discussing problems to solve problems’. Using an experience sampling methodology, participants provided data for up to four times a day for up to five working days (N= 89). The extent to which people ‘changed aspects of their work activities to solve problems’ was associated with higher levels of ideas generation for people with high personal initiative. The extent to which people ‘discussed problems to solve problems’ was associated with higher levels of ideas implementation for people with high personal initiative.

Item Type: Article
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Employment Systems and Institutions
Depositing User: Elle Green
Date Deposited: 05 Mar 2012 15:35
Last Modified: 22 Nov 2022 13:30
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/37860
DOI: 10.1348/096317910X494269

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