1. How to Establish a Sustainable Organization? A Study on the Relationship between Social Work Characteristics and Innovativeness for Employees of Organizations
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Hsiang-Yu Ma, Nein-Tsu Chiang, Cheng-Chung Cho, Jui-Chung Kao, and Rui-Hsin Kao
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social work characteristics ,motivational work characteristics ,Geography, Planning and Development ,TJ807-830 ,010501 environmental sciences ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,TD194-195 ,01 natural sciences ,Renewable energy sources ,collective efficacy ,0502 economics and business ,GE1-350 ,Marketing ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Self-efficacy ,Environmental effects of industries and plants ,Social work ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,05 social sciences ,Perspective (graphical) ,Multilevel model ,innovativeness ,Building and Construction ,Viewpoints ,Collective efficacy ,Environmental sciences ,Work (electrical) ,Order (business) ,Psychology ,self-efficacy ,050203 business & management - Abstract
The shaping of employees’ innovativeness is an important way of building a sustainable organization. Therefore, in order to have a sustainable police organization, the innovativeness of the police must be established in order to achieve the objective of maintaining law and order. In this study, Taiwan’s first-line border police officers served as the research subject, and the cross-level model perspective was adopted to investigate their innovativeness from task-oriented and socially oriented viewpoints. At the same time, investigations were made into the cross-level direct and indirect effects of social work characteristics and collective efficacy toward police officers’ self-efficacy and innovativeness. A multilevel model was adopted to analyze the quantitative data obtained with 249 border police officers in Taiwan as the research objects. The results showed that social work characteristics have a positive influence on collective efficacy, and motivational work characteristics have a positive influence on employees’ self-efficacy and innovativeness. Their self-efficacy showed a positive influence on innovativeness, and a mediating effect on the relationship between motivational work characteristics and innovativeness. Moreover, social work characteristics and collective efficacy have a cross-level contextual effect on self-efficacy and innovativeness, while social work characteristics and self-efficacy have a cross-level interaction on police officers’ innovativeness. In general, this study confirmed the importance of employees’ innovativeness for the establishment of a sustainable police organization. The characteristics of social and motivational work, self-efficacy, and collective effectiveness are important variables for establishing employees’ innovativeness.
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- 2021
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