The Influence of Supportive Organizational Climate on Employees’ Innovation Behavior: The Mediating Role of Team Engagement and Work Engagement

This study aims to explore, in the Chinese software and information technology services industry, whether a supportive organizational climate will directly affect employees’ innovation behavior and indirectly affect it through employees’ team engagement and work engagement. So, this study used quantitative research methods, collected 613 questionnaires in six provinces and cities in China, and analyzed data using SPSS26.0 and AMOS23.0. Finally, the result shows that a supportive organizational climate has a direct positive influence on employees’ innovation behavior, and has a positive indirect influence on employees’ innovation behavior through team engagement and work engagement, and the mediating effect is more than a direct effect. This article not only further reinforces the foundations of social cognitive theory and self-determination theory, but also fills the research gap on employees’ innovation behavior in the Chinese software and information technology service industry: provides leaders with support on how to create a supportive organizational climate to promote employees’ innovation behavior, and assists employees in understanding how to stimulate their innovation behavior.