The need to be unique and the innovative behavior: The moderating role of supervisor support
The purpose of this study is to examine the moderating effect of supervisor support on the relationship between the need to be unique and the innovative behavior. People not only strive to belong to a group but also want to be unique from others and feel exceptional. Individuals’ innovative behavior...
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| author | Mustafa Bekmezci Wasim Ul Rehman Muzammil Khurshid Kemal Eroğluer Inci Yilmazli Trout |
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| description | The purpose of this study is to examine the moderating effect of supervisor support on the relationship between the need to be unique and the innovative behavior. People not only strive to belong to a group but also want to be unique from others and feel exceptional. Individuals’ innovative behavior is one of the things that makes them feel different from other people. Because developing a new idea, supporting this idea, putting this idea into practice, and the positive achievements of this idea distinguish people who exhibit innovative behavior from others. It depends on the behavior of supervisors whether people who break away from typical practices and procedures to feel unique and special continue to act in innovative ways. In this context, it is vitally essential for supervisors to support people who display innovative behavior. The research was conducted on employees working in the education sector in Mersin. We employed the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to examine the fitness of the model and moderation was tested. As hypothesized, the need to be unique had a significant and positive effect on innovative behavior. This finding is consistent with existing literature and thus advance knowledge on need to be unique and innovative behavior, particular in education sector. Nonetheless, it has been determined that supervisor support doesn’t have a moderator role on the relationship between the need to be unique and innovative behavior. Although there are some researches in the literature on consumer experiences about the need to be unique and innovative behavior, but literature on education section is sparse and still long way to go to evaluate its’ reflections on the workplace. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-679c966200254df6858ac8d202dc62082022-12-22T02:36:28ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-09-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.979909979909The need to be unique and the innovative behavior: The moderating role of supervisor supportMustafa Bekmezci0Wasim Ul Rehman1Muzammil Khurshid2Kemal Eroğluer3Inci Yilmazli Trout4Department of Defense Management, National Defense University, Turkish Military Academy, Istanbul, TurkeyDepartment of Business Administration, Faculty of Business, Economics and Administrative Sciences, University of the Punjab, Gujranwala, PakistanDepartment of Banking and Finance, Faculty of Commerce, University of the Punjab, Gujranwala, PakistanDepartment of Business Administration, National Defense University Turkish Military Academy, Ankara, TurkeyDreeben School of Education, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX, United StatesThe purpose of this study is to examine the moderating effect of supervisor support on the relationship between the need to be unique and the innovative behavior. People not only strive to belong to a group but also want to be unique from others and feel exceptional. Individuals’ innovative behavior is one of the things that makes them feel different from other people. Because developing a new idea, supporting this idea, putting this idea into practice, and the positive achievements of this idea distinguish people who exhibit innovative behavior from others. It depends on the behavior of supervisors whether people who break away from typical practices and procedures to feel unique and special continue to act in innovative ways. In this context, it is vitally essential for supervisors to support people who display innovative behavior. The research was conducted on employees working in the education sector in Mersin. We employed the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to examine the fitness of the model and moderation was tested. As hypothesized, the need to be unique had a significant and positive effect on innovative behavior. This finding is consistent with existing literature and thus advance knowledge on need to be unique and innovative behavior, particular in education sector. Nonetheless, it has been determined that supervisor support doesn’t have a moderator role on the relationship between the need to be unique and innovative behavior. Although there are some researches in the literature on consumer experiences about the need to be unique and innovative behavior, but literature on education section is sparse and still long way to go to evaluate its’ reflections on the workplace.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.979909/fullsupervisor supportneed for uniquenessinnovative behaviorTurkeyworkplace |
| spellingShingle | Mustafa Bekmezci Wasim Ul Rehman Muzammil Khurshid Kemal Eroğluer Inci Yilmazli Trout The need to be unique and the innovative behavior: The moderating role of supervisor support Frontiers in Psychology supervisor support need for uniqueness innovative behavior Turkey workplace |
| title | The need to be unique and the innovative behavior: The moderating role of supervisor support |
| title_full | The need to be unique and the innovative behavior: The moderating role of supervisor support |
| title_fullStr | The need to be unique and the innovative behavior: The moderating role of supervisor support |
| title_full_unstemmed | The need to be unique and the innovative behavior: The moderating role of supervisor support |
| title_short | The need to be unique and the innovative behavior: The moderating role of supervisor support |
| title_sort | need to be unique and the innovative behavior the moderating role of supervisor support |
| topic | supervisor support need for uniqueness innovative behavior Turkey workplace |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.979909/full |
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