Configuration of prosocial motivations to enhance employees’ innovation behaviors: From the perspective of coupling of basic and applied research
Prosocial motivation refers to the employees’ willingness to invest for the sake of helping others. It improves basic and applied research behaviors of employees and the interaction between them. Employees’ innovation behavior depends on prosocial motivation because the motivation to protect the int...
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description | Prosocial motivation refers to the employees’ willingness to invest for the sake of helping others. It improves basic and applied research behaviors of employees and the interaction between them. Employees’ innovation behavior depends on prosocial motivation because the motivation to protect the interests of others may promote knowledge sharing and knowledge coupling. However, there is a research gap in solving the optimal solution of prosocial motivations that facilitates different types of innovation behaviors based on the combination of prosocial motivations. We perform a qualitative comparative study on the effect of the motivation configurations on innovation behaviors. We find that highly basic and highly applied research behaviors share in common collectivism-based, principlism-based, contextual, and situational motivations which work in all configurations. But the core conditions between the two are different, which are principlism-based and situational motivations, respectively. In addition, both highly basic-to-applied and highly applied-to-basic transformation behaviors share the same core condition and the same secondary conditions with highly basic and highly applied research behaviors, respectively. Moreover, the behaviors of non-highly basic research and non-highly basic-to-applied transformation share the severe absence of egoism-based motivation as the core condition in common. Non-highly behaviors of applied research and applied-to-basic transformation have a common point of the severe absence of the pressure-based type as the key. Finally, we also analyze active and passive prosocial degrees of all types of high/non-high innovation behaviors. Our study deepens the academics’ thinking on multi-dimensional prosocial motivation and the classification management of coupling innovation behavior and provides implications for practice. |
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spelling | doaj.art-5ea0bae6ba4344c5bf053768b3f384332022-12-22T04:27:08ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-09-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.958949958949Configuration of prosocial motivations to enhance employees’ innovation behaviors: From the perspective of coupling of basic and applied researchYuting Lu0Linlin Zheng1Binghua Zhang2Wenzhuo Li3Fujian Academy of Social Sciences, Fuzhou, ChinaBusiness School, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, ChinaSchool of Architecture and Urban-Rural Planning, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, ChinaBusiness School, Hohai University, Nanjing, ChinaProsocial motivation refers to the employees’ willingness to invest for the sake of helping others. It improves basic and applied research behaviors of employees and the interaction between them. Employees’ innovation behavior depends on prosocial motivation because the motivation to protect the interests of others may promote knowledge sharing and knowledge coupling. However, there is a research gap in solving the optimal solution of prosocial motivations that facilitates different types of innovation behaviors based on the combination of prosocial motivations. We perform a qualitative comparative study on the effect of the motivation configurations on innovation behaviors. We find that highly basic and highly applied research behaviors share in common collectivism-based, principlism-based, contextual, and situational motivations which work in all configurations. But the core conditions between the two are different, which are principlism-based and situational motivations, respectively. In addition, both highly basic-to-applied and highly applied-to-basic transformation behaviors share the same core condition and the same secondary conditions with highly basic and highly applied research behaviors, respectively. Moreover, the behaviors of non-highly basic research and non-highly basic-to-applied transformation share the severe absence of egoism-based motivation as the core condition in common. Non-highly behaviors of applied research and applied-to-basic transformation have a common point of the severe absence of the pressure-based type as the key. Finally, we also analyze active and passive prosocial degrees of all types of high/non-high innovation behaviors. Our study deepens the academics’ thinking on multi-dimensional prosocial motivation and the classification management of coupling innovation behavior and provides implications for practice.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.958949/fullprosocial motivationresearch behaviortransformation behaviorqualitative comparative analysisconfiguration |
spellingShingle | Yuting Lu Linlin Zheng Binghua Zhang Wenzhuo Li Configuration of prosocial motivations to enhance employees’ innovation behaviors: From the perspective of coupling of basic and applied research Frontiers in Psychology prosocial motivation research behavior transformation behavior qualitative comparative analysis configuration |
title | Configuration of prosocial motivations to enhance employees’ innovation behaviors: From the perspective of coupling of basic and applied research |
title_full | Configuration of prosocial motivations to enhance employees’ innovation behaviors: From the perspective of coupling of basic and applied research |
title_fullStr | Configuration of prosocial motivations to enhance employees’ innovation behaviors: From the perspective of coupling of basic and applied research |
title_full_unstemmed | Configuration of prosocial motivations to enhance employees’ innovation behaviors: From the perspective of coupling of basic and applied research |
title_short | Configuration of prosocial motivations to enhance employees’ innovation behaviors: From the perspective of coupling of basic and applied research |
title_sort | configuration of prosocial motivations to enhance employees innovation behaviors from the perspective of coupling of basic and applied research |
topic | prosocial motivation research behavior transformation behavior qualitative comparative analysis configuration |
url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.958949/full |
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