The Impact of Perceived Corporate Social Responsibility and Workplace Spirituality on Innovative Work Behaviors: The Role of Psychological Safety Perception
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İşiaçık, Serin
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Taştan, Seçil Bal
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Marmara Universitesi (Turkey)
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2019
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139 p.
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Master's
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Marmara Universitesi (Turkey)
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2019
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Individuals' creativity and innovative work behaviors are important in today's organizations. The need for the creative and innovative workforce has increased because of the global competitive business environment, technological advancements and changing environmental factors. For this reason, organizations implement practices to improve employees' innovative work behaviors. From an academic perspective, the determinants that increase these behaviors as well as the types of innovative work behaviors have been discussed in the literature. Based on the extant literature on the relevant topic, the current study aimed to examine the antecedents of innovative work behaviors based on the mentioned problematic. Furthermore, the antecedents of innovative work behaviors have been evaluated through both a broad literature review and observations in several sectors. Then, the theoretical framework of this study about innovative work behaviors and the antecedents of innovative work behaviors was developed. In the context of the theoretical framework, the relationship between workplace spirituality and innovative work behaviors as well as the relationship between perceived corporate social responsibility and innovative work behaviors were examined. Then, the mediating role of psychological safety was investigated on these relationships. A descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted to test the supposed relationships among the variables. The population of this study is white-collar workers who work in the Turkish service sector and the sample has been identified as white-collar workers who worked in different sectors in İstanbul, including technology, Research & Development, Telecommunications, Education, Banking-Finance and Marketing. Data were collected from 249 employees through the surveys that were applied between January 2019 and April 2019. The questionnaire was designed by comprising two main sections including demographic questions and the scales for each of the variables of the study. Thereby, participants' workplace spirituality, perceived corporate social responsibility, psychological safety perception, and innovative work behaviors were assessed through totally four scales. After the data collection, data were analyzed with several statistical techniques. The results revealed a positive relationship between workplace spirituality and innovative work behaviors (r = .412, p <.<1), also a positive correlation was found between perceived corporate social responsibility and innovative work behaviors (r= .238, p<.<1). It was also found that psychological safety mediated these relationship. Further, the results reported that psychological safety perception had a partially mediator role on the relationship between workplace spirituality and innovative work behaviors (R² = .317, p <.<01). Finally, it was found that individuals' psychological safety perception had a fully mediating role on the relationship between corporate social responsibility perception and innovative work behaviors. After the hypothesis testing, several comparative tests were performed to understand whether individuals according to their demographics. For this aim, t-tests and ANOVA tests were conducted to determine the differences between individuals' age, gender, marital status, work experience, and education level. As a result, the variables in which the participants were differed have been explained in the discussion section.