The Sixth Brown Bag seminar continues with the presentation of the Assoc. Prof. Tomislav Hernaus, PhD, (Chair of Organization and Management), who will present work-in-emerging: ACTUAL-WANTED TASK IDENTITY (IN) CONGRESS AND INNOVATIVE WORK BEHAVIOR: THE MEDIATED POLYNOMIAL REGRESSION EFFECTS OF JOB CRAFTING.
The seminar will be conducted in Croatian language on Thursday, October 11, 2018, in Hall 51 starting at 2 PM.
Short summary of the presentation:
Previous meta-analytic evidence has shown several job-design characteristics to be crucial predictors of employee innovativeness. The reality is, however, that many individuals are likely to be incongruent with the characteristics of their jobs. Discrepancy in job-design characteristics (actual versus wanted) represents an under-researched area of the person–job fit literature and (paradoxically) has the potential to explain employee innovative work behavior. In particular, we decided to focus on task identity and entertain the possibility that employees can react to incongruent situations between actual- and wanted-task identity by adjusting their work and engaging in job crafting, and thus increase their creative and innovative performance. The results of cross-level mediated polynomial regression analyses from the multi-source time-lagged field study of 184 working professionals in a European bank and experimental study with 84 students at an EU-based university converged, thus offering several interesting findings. First, congruence in actual-wanted task identity at high levels (high-fit situation) leads to higher levels of innovative work behavior than congruence achieved at low levels (low-fit situation). Second, we found empirical evidence that task identity incongruence is driving innovative work behaviors more than congruence does. Third, task-identity overfit (actual > wanted) is positively predicting innovative work behavior via job crafting as a mechanism for employees to adjust their work and benefit from the (in)congruence.
The Brown Bag Seminar (BBS) is an informal one-hour workshop with aim to presenting research in different stages of design (ideas, rounded theoretical framework, conducted empirical research, etc.), promoting discussion and creating a stimulating environment focused on constructive discussion between exhibitors and the rest of participants of the seminar. The basic idea of the BBS is to create a platform where, at least once a month, FEB employees will have the opportunity to present the ideas and articles they work on within their scientific-research work.
We invite you to respond and help with your constructive comments to exhibitors, and expose the topics you are currently working on, unpublished works or present the research ideas you are thinking about.
The seminar will be conducted in Croatian language on Thursday, October 11, 2018, in Hall 51 starting at 2 PM.
Short summary of the presentation:
Previous meta-analytic evidence has shown several job-design characteristics to be crucial predictors of employee innovativeness. The reality is, however, that many individuals are likely to be incongruent with the characteristics of their jobs. Discrepancy in job-design characteristics (actual versus wanted) represents an under-researched area of the person–job fit literature and (paradoxically) has the potential to explain employee innovative work behavior. In particular, we decided to focus on task identity and entertain the possibility that employees can react to incongruent situations between actual- and wanted-task identity by adjusting their work and engaging in job crafting, and thus increase their creative and innovative performance. The results of cross-level mediated polynomial regression analyses from the multi-source time-lagged field study of 184 working professionals in a European bank and experimental study with 84 students at an EU-based university converged, thus offering several interesting findings. First, congruence in actual-wanted task identity at high levels (high-fit situation) leads to higher levels of innovative work behavior than congruence achieved at low levels (low-fit situation). Second, we found empirical evidence that task identity incongruence is driving innovative work behaviors more than congruence does. Third, task-identity overfit (actual > wanted) is positively predicting innovative work behavior via job crafting as a mechanism for employees to adjust their work and benefit from the (in)congruence.
The Brown Bag Seminar (BBS) is an informal one-hour workshop with aim to presenting research in different stages of design (ideas, rounded theoretical framework, conducted empirical research, etc.), promoting discussion and creating a stimulating environment focused on constructive discussion between exhibitors and the rest of participants of the seminar. The basic idea of the BBS is to create a platform where, at least once a month, FEB employees will have the opportunity to present the ideas and articles they work on within their scientific-research work.
We invite you to respond and help with your constructive comments to exhibitors, and expose the topics you are currently working on, unpublished works or present the research ideas you are thinking about.