The Impacts of Work Engagement on Innovative Behavior with an Emphasis on the Mediatory Role of Sharing Mistakes

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Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

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Today, organizations need innovations in order to grow and survive. Organizations that cannot deliver innovative products and services to market continually are doomed to fail. But the key of innovation is in the innovative behavior of employees. Various factors affect the innovative behavior of employees. The work engagement of employees is one of the factors which can affect this behavior. Despite this fact, the way it affects is one of the major issues in IT community. The aim of this study is to investigate the mediatory role of sharing mistakes in the way work engagement affect innovative behavior of IT experts. The statistical population of this study includes IT experts in IT companies, who are members of the Computer Union Organization of Khorasan Razavi province, Iran. In this study, stratified sampling is employed. In order to evaluate the research variables, a questionnaire is used with 26 questions. The questionnaire is distributed among 120 IT experts in Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi province. To analyze the data, structural equation modeling is used. The results of the study show that work engagement has a positive impact on sharing mistakes and idea generation. In addition, sharing mistakes mediates the impact of work engagement on generating and promoting ideas.

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  • Receive Date: 10 October 2015
  • Revise Date: 18 February 2016
  • Accept Date: 18 May 2016

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