Exploring The Influencing Mechanism Of Overwork On Innovative Behavior

In the context of economic transformation era,employee’s innovative behavior has increasingly become the core source of the organization’s competitive advantage,which is related to the survival and development of the organization.In management practice,a wealth of resources have been invested by enterprises to stimulate employees’ innovative behavior.But at the same time,the phenomenon of overtime work emerges in endlessly,which seriously is far beyond the scope of employees’ own endurance,resulting in overwork of employees and weakening the enthusiasm of employees to participate in innovative behavior.In fact,in order to survive and develop,enterprises continuously impose heavy responsibilities on workers.Overburdened work has exacerbated the tension of employees’ own psychological resources,resulting in employees falling into the situation of "the spirit is willing,but the flesh is weak".However,compared with daily work,innovative behavior needs more energy.In order to cope with this dilemma,employees tend to selfcontrol,reduce innovative behavior accordingly to retain limited psychological resources,and give priority to ensuring the completion of their own work.Therefore,organizational managers often face a dilemma: under the limited psychological resources of employees,on the one hand,because of the heavy tasks of enterprises,employees have to work overtime,resulting in overwork of employees,thus further aggravating the psychological burden of employees and limiting the surplus psychological resources of employees;on the other hand,employees are encouraged to innovate actively,which inevitably needs to consume their own energy.In order to alleviate this dilemma,overcome the resource shortage of employees,it is particularly important to explore how overwork affects employees’ innovative behavior,how employees’ inner perception affects employees,and how to help organizations avoid overwork and ensure employees’ innovative behavior.When exploring the model of the relationship between overwork and employees’ innovative behavior,this study finds the key variable to reveal the black box---depletion.Based on the conservation of resource theory,we systematically integrate overwork and employees’ innovative behavior.At the same time,this study fully considers the impact of employees’ psychological resources on employees’ innovative behavior and explores how job insecurity interferes with the influence mechanism of overwork on self-wastage from the perspective of individual internal perception.This paper first introduced the background and significance of the research and elaborates the research content and methods.Subsequently,the theory involved in the model and the literature related to the variables were sorted out.Later,based on conservation of resource theory,a theoretical model was constructed and the main hypotheses were deduced.In the part of empirical analysis,we used SPSS 24.0 and Lisrel 8.8 to conduct descriptive statistics analysis,reliability,confirmatory factor analysis and validity analysis,regression analysis and so on to verify the hypothesis.Finally,based on the results of data analysis,we summarized the conclusions of this study and the possible innovations and deficiencies,put forward organizational practice and gave prospect for future research.The main conclusions drawn from the test results can be listed as follows:(1)Overwork has a significant negative impact on Innovative Behavior;(2)Overwork has a significant positive impact on Depletion;(3)Depletion has a significant negative impact on Innovative Behavior;(4)Depletion mediates the relationship between Overwork and Innovative Behavior;(5)Job Insecurity moderates the relationship between Overwork and Depletion.According to the research conclusion,this paper puts forward some suggestions on management practice from three levels of government,organization and employees.For the government,it mainly aims to optimize structural upgrading,improve the laws and regulations of overwork,perfect early warning and supervision mechanism.For the organization,it is necessary to improve the human resources management system of enterprises,establish a safe and harmonious organizational atmosphere.Care,guide,help employees and supplement their limited psychological resources under overwork.For employees,work plan should be made reasonably according to their own situation,and their knowledge and skills should be continuously improved.The innovation points of the research can be summarized as follows:(1)Based on the conservation of resource theory,the mechanism model of overwork on employees’ innovative behavior is constructed;(2)Depletion is taken as an intermediary variable,which opens the black box of the role of overwork on employees’ innovative behavior;(3)From the perspective of individual differences,job insecurity is taken as a moderating variable between overwork and depletion,making the causal link between overwork and depletion become clearer..