The dual effects of leader bottom-line mentality on employee innovation behavior: the mediating role of willingness to take risks and the moderating role of work values

As a unidimensional mentality, leader bottom-line mentality exhibits a dual predictive pattern with respect to employee innovation behavior: it positively predicts reactive innovation behavior while negatively predicting proactive innovation behavior. Notably, these predictive relationships are contingent upon work values: intrinsic work values attenuate the observed dual pattern, whereas extrinsic work values amplify these associations.