Psychological capital and innovative work behaviour: The role of mastery orientation and creative self-efficacy

Continuous innovation is what helps companies survive the highly discontinuous competition. Securing innovative work behaviour from employees has drawn the attention of businesses and researchers alike. The current work draws on broaden-and-build theory and goal orientation theory to propose how an individual's psychological capital, which is malleable, helps in achieving innovative work behaviour from employees. The study has been conducted in the context of three-star hotels located in and around New Delhi, the capital of India. The data was collected using standard scales from a dyad of 229 employees and their managers. The present study enriches the innovative work behavior literature by combining different perspectives in a coherent framework and demonstrates the partially mediated positive relationship of psychological capital and innovative work behavior via mastery orientation. Also, the study reveals that the partially mediated indirect effect varies among employees based on their level of CSE.

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This study examines how an individual's psychological capital influences employees' innovative work behavior by combining broaden-and-build theory and goal orientation theory. The study was conducted in three-star hotels in and around the capital of India, with data collected from 229 employees and their managers. The findings suggest that psychological capital can enhance innovative work behavior by partially mediating the relationship through mastery orientation, and this effect varies among employees based on their level of CSE.