TY - JOUR
T1 - Linking the demands-control-support model to innovation: The moderating role of personal initiative on the generation and implementation of ideas
AU - Daniels, Kevin
AU - Wimalasiri, Varuni
AU - Cheyne, Alistair
AU - Story, Vicky
PY - 2011/9
Y1 - 2011/9
N2 - The demands–control–support model indicates that workers can use job control and social support for problem solving. We examined whether personal initiative moderated relationships between, on the one hand, job control used for problem solving and social support used for problem solving and, on the other hand, ideas generation and implementation. We operationalized job control used for problem solving as ‘changing aspects of work activities to solve problems’. We operationalized social support used for problem solving as ‘discussing problems to solve problems’. Using an experience sampling methodology, participants provided data for up to four times a day for up to five working days (N= 89). The extent to which people ‘changed aspects of their work activities to solve problems’ was associated with higher levels of ideas generation for people with high personal initiative. The extent to which people ‘discussed problems to solve problems’ was associated with higher levels of ideas implementation for people with high personal initiative.
AB - The demands–control–support model indicates that workers can use job control and social support for problem solving. We examined whether personal initiative moderated relationships between, on the one hand, job control used for problem solving and social support used for problem solving and, on the other hand, ideas generation and implementation. We operationalized job control used for problem solving as ‘changing aspects of work activities to solve problems’. We operationalized social support used for problem solving as ‘discussing problems to solve problems’. Using an experience sampling methodology, participants provided data for up to four times a day for up to five working days (N= 89). The extent to which people ‘changed aspects of their work activities to solve problems’ was associated with higher levels of ideas generation for people with high personal initiative. The extent to which people ‘discussed problems to solve problems’ was associated with higher levels of ideas implementation for people with high personal initiative.
U2 - 10.1348/096317910X494269
DO - 10.1348/096317910X494269
M3 - Article
VL - 84
SP - 581
EP - 598
JO - Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
JF - Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
SN - 0963-1798
IS - 3
ER -