Title: Can organisational culture increase innovative behaviour? A serial mediation effect of job competency and job performance: comparing before and after pandemic

Authors: Eung Il Kim

Addresses: Division of Business Administration, College of Business and Economic, Dong-eui University, 176 Eomgwangno, Busanjin-gu, Busan, 47340, South Korea

Abstract: How to successfully apply organisational culture to employees can raise a problem for decision-makers. Though organisational culture may have positive effects, little research has been conducted into how to voluntarily involve employees without huge costs. This article uses spillover theory to examine how organisational culture conveys the organisation's vision of employees' work-related (job competency and job performance) and off-duty results (innovative behaviours). Using public data in South Korea, the serial mediation findings support that: 1) job competency mediates the relationship between organisational justice and job performance; 2) job competency mediates the relationship between job performance and innovative behaviour; 3) job competency and job performance serially mediate the effect of organisational culture and innovative behaviour. The results support the notion that organisational culture may spillover into employee behaviour without huge costs and increase both job-related outcomes and innovative behaviour. Therefore, this study provides a solution for decision makers and employees. In addition, the study also compared how serial mediation changes before and after the pandemic.

Keywords: organisational culture; job competency; job performance; innovative behaviour.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWOE.2023.136597

International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 2023 Vol.14 No.4, pp.303 - 319

Received: 23 Mar 2022
Accepted: 12 Jan 2023
Published online: 08 Feb 2024 *

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