The Mediating Role of Innovative Work Behavior Between Talent Management and Organizational Performance of SMEs in China

Abstract

The purpose of this paper was to explore the mediating role of innovative work behavior and the impact of talent management on innovative work behavior and organizational performance. A total of 378 practitioners participated in a questionnaire survey from a sample of small and medium-sized catering enterprises in Zhengzhou City, and structural equation modeling was used to analyze the relationship between talent management, innovative work behavior, and organizational performance. The results show that talent management has a strong positive effect on organizational performance and innovative work behavior; innovative work behavior has a strong positive effect on organizational performance, and innovative work behavior mediates the relationship between talent management and organizational performance. This study empirically tests the mediating role of innovative work behavior (IWB), adds to the literature support of IWB, and fills the population gap in the study of innovative work behavior and organizational performance, and the mediating role of innovative work behavior provides a new basis and supplement, provides a new pathway for talent management to motivate IWB to influence organizational performance, and verifies the relevance of this pathway for subsequent related research provide the basis for subsequent related research.

Keywords: Organizational performance, talent management, innovative work behavior, business growth

JEL Classification: M11, M39