The Influence Of Digital Competence On Employee Innovation Performance

At present,China’s digital economy is developing rapidly.With the updating and iteration of digital technology,the wave of digital transformation is sweeping almost all industries with unprecedented speed.In order to seize this new technological revolution and industrial upgrading,major countries and regions have carried out digital transformation practice and strategic layout,and various organizations continue to innovate and take active actions to form a new industrial pattern.Digitalization is not only the application and promotion of digital technology,but also brings comprehensive changes in organizational management and talent development.Digitalization puts forward new requirements for employees’ competence,and the cultivation of employees’ digital competence can help employees deal with digital opportunities and challenges,and promote individual performance improvement and organizational development.At the same time,in the context of innovation-driven strategy,individual innovation plays a more important role,and individual competence is the most important source and foundation of innovation.However,the research on digital competence is concentrated in the field of information science and pedagogy,and it lacks attention in the field of organization and management.The influence mechanism of digital competence on employees’ innovation achievements is not clear yet.In order to explore the mechanism and boundary conditions between employee’s digital competence and employee’s innovation performance,this study based on the innovation composition theory and innovation interaction theory.Through the literature research,we put forward the research hypothesis,which contain personal improvisation as a mediating variable and job autonomy as a moderating variable.We conducted a questionnaire survey among employees from Wuhan,Xi ’an and Shenzhen,and collected215 valid questionnaires.We used SPSS22.0 and Mplus8.0 to test the research hypothesis,and the main conclusions are as follows: In the digital context,the employee’s digital competence affects the employees’ innovation performance level;individual improvisation plays a partial mediating role between the employee’s digital competence and employee’s innovation performance;the work autonomy play a positive moderating role between the employee’s digital competence and employee’s innovation performance,and also between the employee’s digital competence and individual improvisation.At the same time,job autonomy moderates the mediating role of personal improvisation between employees’ digital competence and innovation performance,that is a moderated mediating role.These results show that in the context of organizational digitization,employees’ digital competence is an important factor affecting employees’ innovation performance,and individual innovation cultivation in dynamic scenarios is a complex mechanism,which is affected by individual improvisation and job autonomy.This study explores the concept and mechanism of employee digital competence in the field of organizational management.We expand the antecedent research of employee’s innovation in the digital context,test the role of individual improvisation and job autonomy between the employees’ digital competence and the innovation performance,deepen the generating mechanism of employees’ innovation performance analysis,and enrich the empirical research of employees’ digital competence in the context of Chinese management.In the background of digital revolution,managers should pay more attention on the digital competence of employees as the basis for the innovation and development of individuals and organizations,guide rationally individuals to improvise,improve employees’ ability to allocate resources and solve practical problems in dynamic situations,improve the level of work autonomy,give employees a certain degree of work autonomy,respect the individual needs of employees,and then stimulate creative thinking of employees to improve the level of innovation performance.