Research On The Influence Of Power Distance And Organizational Commitment On Employees' Innovative Behaviors

Innovation is an inexhaustible motive power for enterprises to maintain their healthy and sustainable development,and also an important source for enterprises to obtain competitive advantages.Without innovation,there can be no development and competitiveness for enterprises.Employee innovative behavior,the core and the key of enterprise innovation,is an important source of enterprise creative activity and plays a decisive role in the development and the growth of the enterprises.enhancing employee innovation behavior and promoting enterprise innovation are effective ways to deal with insufficient innovation vitality and the lake of competitiveness of enterprises.There are two main factors that affect the employee creative process,which are individual level and environment level.Power distance,an environmental factor,is the opinions or values of employee on the differences of power between superiors and subordinates,also the feelings and attitudes of employee toward informal power in the enterprise.In the process of employee carrying out creative activities,the views,attitudes and values of employee are particularly important,to a certain degree,it determines whether employees carry out innovative activities or not and the way of innovative.This research takes the social cognition theory as the cut-in point,and takes the enterprise staff as the research object.By combining theoretical deduction with empirical analysis,and on the basis of exploratory research,this research puts forward the initial proposition of the inherent correlation among power distance,organizational commitment and employee innovation behavior.Based on the perspective of social cognitive theory,this research constructs the theoretical analysis framework of employee innovation behavior,and uses the simple random sampling survey method to make an empirical measurement of power distance,organizational commitment and employee innovation behavior.The research takes the formal questionnaire survey as the sources of sample data,and comprehensively uses descriptive statistics analysis,factor analysis,correlation analysis,multiple regression analysis,structural equation modeling and other methods,reveals the relationship between power distance,organizational commitment and employee innovation behavior,and empirically tests the research hypotheses proposed in this research.The research shows that the process of employee innovation behavior is a complex process of employee creative activity,which is the result of the combination of environmental factors and individual factors,in which the power distance and organizational commitment are two important variables.The results of multivariate regression analysis verify the intrinsic relationship among power distance,organizational commitment and employee innovation behavior from the perspective of social cognitive theory.It verifies the one-way effect and interaction effect of power distance and organizational commitment on employee innovation behavior at the same time.Specifically,there are five main conclusions:First,in the variable structure elements,power distance is composed of function distance and emotional distance.It is reasonable to divide employee innovation behavior into follower innovation behavior and exploratory innovation behavior.Second,In the two-dimensional structural elements of functional distance and emotional distance of power distance,emotional distance have an obvious negative effect on the follow-up innovation behavior.Third,In the structure of emotional commitment,continuous commitment and normative commitment of organizational commitment,emotional commitment,continuous commitment and normative commitment have a significant positive effect on following innovative behavior.Continuous commitment and normative commitment have a significant positive effect on exploratory innovation behavior.Fourth,in the process of interaction between power distance and organizational commitment,functional distance----emotional commitment,emotional distance----continuous commitment interaction has a significant effect on employee innovation behavior.Fifth,the intermediary role of organizational commitment is not obvious between power distance and employee innovation behavior.Overall,There are three possible innovations in this research:First,from the perspective of social cognitive theory,this research put forward the analysis framework of power distance and organizational commitment interaction effects on employee innovation behavior,and further explore its inner logical relation.Second,this research has further deepen the dimension of rationality structure of "power distance" and"employee innovation behavior",and systematically analyses the inherent mechanism of power distance,organizational commitment and employee innovative behavior.Third,this research not only discusses the influence of power distance and organizational commitment on organizational individual innovation behavior,but also makes an empirical analysis and discussion on the interaction effect on employee innovation behavior and the intermediary role of organizational commitment.This research reveals the interaction of the power distance and organizational commitment on Employee Innovative behavior.To a certain degree,It deepens the influence mechanism of power distance and organizational commitment on employee innovation behavior.