The Effect of Organizational Virtuousness on Employees’  Innovative Behavior: The Role of Moderating and Mediating Variables

Yousif Mousa Sabti; Salih M AL Hisnawi; Kawthar Mowaffak Jaber  AlMousawi; Aeshah Hasan Radhi

doi:10.48165/sajssh.2024.5313

Authors

Yousif Mousa Sabti Department of Accounting, Administrative and Finance science College, Imam Ja'afar Al-Sadiq University, Iraq
Salih M AL Hisnawi University of Karbala, college of administration and Economics, Iraq.
Kawthar Mowaffak Jaber AlMousawi Department of health management , College of Health & Medical Technology, Sawa University, Samawah, 3 Iraq.
Aeshah Hasan Radhi Department of Management and Marketing of Oil and Gas, College of Industrial Management for Oil and Gas, Basrah University for Oil and Gas, Basra, Iraq.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48165/sajssh.2024.5313

Keywords:

organizational virtuousness, Innovative behavior, Creative self-efficacy, thriving

Abstract

This objective of the study is to assess the association between OV and IB. Furthermore, the study scrutinizes the mediating effect of thriving between OV and IB. Moreover, this study also examines the moderating effect of CSE between thriving and IB. A quantitative also cross sectional design was used. Data was collected from to test the proposed 509 respondents from high-tech construction and manufacturing industries of Iraq. The findings shown that OV has a positive association with innovative behavior. The mediation result also was significant. The findings shown that CSE weakened the association between thriving and IB. In the end, theoretical and practices implications was discussed with future recommendation.

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