Journal article
From Inclusive Climate to Organizational Innovation: Examining Internal and External Enablers for Knowledge Management Capacity
Journal of applied psychology, Vol.107(12), pp.2285-2305
12/01/2022
DOI: 10.1037/apl0001014
PMID: 35324221
Abstract
As the diversity field evolves, scholars are shifting the attention from mitigating "problems" associated with diversity to searching for ways to leverage the potential value in diversity. We advance this field by studying how an inclusive climate benefits organizational innovation, an important foundation for sustained competitive advantage. Adopting a synergy perspective, we examine the internal (i.e., workplace demographic diversity in terms of age, gender, and region) and external contingencies (i.e., environmental scanning and environmental uncertainty) for an inclusive climate to foster incremental and radical innovation through the mechanism of knowledge management capacity. We tested our research model with a three-wave data collection from multiple sources (i.e., employees, human resource managers, and executives) in 102 organizations. We found that workplace age and regional diversity (but not gender diversity) strengthened the positive effect of inclusive climate on knowledge management capacity, and subsequently incremental and radical innovation. The facilitating effect of environmental scanning was only significant for organizations that experienced higher environmental uncertainty. Our research highlights the importance of considering the synergistic potential of internal human resources and external environments for organizations to capitalize on their inclusive climate for knowledge management and innovation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- From Inclusive Climate to Organizational Innovation: Examining Internal and External Enablers for Knowledge Management Capacity
- Creators
- Yixuan Li - Department of Management.Yiduo Shao - University of IowaMo Wang - Department of Management.Yanran Fang - Zhejiang UniversityYaping Gong - University of Hong KongChang Li - Zhejiang Gongshang University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of applied psychology, Vol.107(12), pp.2285-2305
- Publisher
- Amer Psychological Assoc
- DOI
- 10.1037/apl0001014
- PMID
- 35324221
- ISSN
- 0021-9010
- eISSN
- 1939-1854
- Number of pages
- 22
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2022
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984380387102771
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