TY - JOUR
T1 - Human resource systems, employee creativity, and firm innovation
T2 - The moderating role of firm ownership
AU - Liu, Dong
AU - Gong, Yaping
AU - Zhou, Jing
AU - Huang, Jia Chi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Academy of Management Journal.
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - This inter-human resource (HR) systems research investigates whether, how, and when different types of employee-experienced HR systems jointly influence employee creativity. We hypothesize and find that employee-experienced performance-oriented HR systems were more positively related to employee domain-relevant skills when employees experienced stronger maintenance-oriented HR systems. In addition, employeeexperienced maintenance-oriented HR systems more strongly augmented the positive relationship between employee-experienced performance-oriented HR systems and domain-relevant skills in privately owned enterprises (POEs) than in state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Employee domain-relevant skills mediated the three-way interactive effect of employee-experienced performance-oriented HR systems, maintenanceoriented HR systems, and firm ownership (POEs vs. SOEs) on employee creativity. Finally, aggregated employee creativity had a stronger positive relationship with firm innovation in POEs than in SOEs. As such, this investigation provides novel theoretical and empirical insights into strategic HR systems, creativity, and innovation.
AB - This inter-human resource (HR) systems research investigates whether, how, and when different types of employee-experienced HR systems jointly influence employee creativity. We hypothesize and find that employee-experienced performance-oriented HR systems were more positively related to employee domain-relevant skills when employees experienced stronger maintenance-oriented HR systems. In addition, employeeexperienced maintenance-oriented HR systems more strongly augmented the positive relationship between employee-experienced performance-oriented HR systems and domain-relevant skills in privately owned enterprises (POEs) than in state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Employee domain-relevant skills mediated the three-way interactive effect of employee-experienced performance-oriented HR systems, maintenanceoriented HR systems, and firm ownership (POEs vs. SOEs) on employee creativity. Finally, aggregated employee creativity had a stronger positive relationship with firm innovation in POEs than in SOEs. As such, this investigation provides novel theoretical and empirical insights into strategic HR systems, creativity, and innovation.
UR - https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000404963100015
UR - https://openalex.org/W2399809304
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85023178242
U2 - 10.5465/amj.2015.0230
DO - 10.5465/amj.2015.0230
M3 - Journal Article
SN - 0001-4273
VL - 60
SP - 1164
EP - 1188
JO - Academy of Management Journal
JF - Academy of Management Journal
IS - 3
ER -