The Impact Of Organizational Resilience On Employee Innovation Behavior In A VUCA Environment: A Cross-level Moderated Multiple Mediation Model Stud

With escalating market demands,innovation has become a core element of corporate competitiveness.However,in the current international environment of increasing variability,uncertainty,complexity and ambiguity(VUCA),an increasing number of unpredictable negative events pose potential threats to the sustainable development of countries,firms and individuals.The uncertainties in the innovation process are increasing and innovation risks are accumulating.In the current environment,how to effectively prevent and resolve innovation risks and stimulate employees’ innovation behaviors is an urgent problem to be solved now.In the face of the increasingly complex external environment,the positive role of resilience is gradually explored.Study 1 combined social information processing theory with cultural dimension theory and used cross-cultural meta-analysis to explore the changing trends in the impact of employee resilience on employee innovation behavior and the moderating effect of uncertainty avoidance.A total of 1002 records(644 records in the English database and358 records in the Chinese database)were obtained through the literature search.Based on the literature selection criteria and process,27 articles(containing 28 effect sizes and a total sample size of 8703 individuals)were finally included in Study 1.A random effects model(REM)was constructed using CMA 3.3 software,and the results show that(1)the relation between employee resilience and employee innovation behavior tends to increase.(2)The negative moderating effect of uncertainty avoidance is significant,i.e.,the relation between employee resilience and employee innovative behavior is stronger in a cultural context with lower levels of uncertainty avoidance.Study 2 combined social information processing theory with resource conservation theory,and used the questionnaire method to explore the cross-level influence mechanism and boundary conditions of organizational resilience on employees’ innovative behavior,and to analyze the multiple mediating roles of organizational innovation performance,employees’ resilience,and the moderating role of job insecurity climate.To control for common method bias,a multi-wave data collection strategy was used.In T1,this study investigated demographic variables and organizational resilience with 950 questionnaires distributed.In T2,this study investigated employees’ resilience,job insecurity climate and organizational innovation performance,and 723 questionnaires were validly returned.In T3,this study investigated employees’ innovation behavior,and the final valid return sample contained 639 employees from 68 companies.Using Mplus 7.4 software to construct a hierarchical linear model(HLM),the results show that(1)organizational resilience can positively predict employee innovation behavior.(2)The multiple mediating roles of organizational innovation performance and employee resilience are significant.(3)The moderating role of job insecurity climate between organizational resilience and organizational innovation performance is significant.(4)The moderating effect of job insecurity climate between employees’ resilience and their innovative behavior is significant.In the international environment of VUCA,China should make full use of our cultural advantage of low level of uncertainty avoidance to build an adaptive society of volatility,uncertainty,complexity and ambiguity.Chinese enterprises should pay more attention to relevant practices that are conducive to enhancing organizational resilience and employees’ resilience,such as social and environmental practices(SEPs),resilience-oriented human resource management practices,etc.,to build cross-level resource protection paths and stimulate employees’ innovation behaviors.