As today's business environment evolves into a knowledge society, it is becoming much more complex, competitive, and rapidly changing than in the past, so companies exposing to more severe competition than ever before. In order to survive from competi...
As today's business environment evolves into a knowledge society, it is becoming much more complex, competitive, and rapidly changing than in the past, so companies exposing to more severe competition than ever before. In order to survive from competition, the company must secure innovation and competitive employees. Many companies have set high-level goals and have required members to achieve them without mistakes, and constantly pursue perfection.
Despite this perfect pursuit of goals, in order to survive from competition, companies are now constantly looking for elements that can differentiate themselves from others, and it is innovation that makes it possible. It seems likely to match the tendency of innovation behavior or individual perfectionism, but if we look at deeply, it shows that the relationship between the two is very complicated. In the general sense, perfectionism can be seen as an individual's tendency to increase the perfection of results, so if it is found difficult to produce the desired level of achievement in the conventional way, it can be expected that it will increase the tendency to abandon the old method and introduce a new method. However, in a different point of view, perfectionism looks at its behavior in conjunction with other people's assessments, and one can expect that, in the event of a bad result, it will be more likely to fear negative assessments from others and not try new ones.
Not many studies have been carried out from a management perspective, considering the extreme competitive environment currently faced by the company, the relationship between the employee's perfectionist nature and innovative behavior was sought to be derived.
Therefore, the purpose of this study is to reveal the effect of the interdisciplinary effect of personal standards perfectionism and evaluative concerns perfectionism, job engagement, relationship between job engagement, and innovative behavior, personal standards perfectionism and evaluative concerns perfectionism and innovative behavior, which are important factors in light of this kind of current competitive situations.
Data were collected from employees of large and small businesses in Korea who are engaged in various jobs. A questionnaire was used to collect data. The collection process distributed a total of 500 questionnaires for about a month, and in most cases, the questionnaire was retrieved directly, and some were collected by E-mail and mail. The total number of questionnaires retrieved totaled 443, with a recovery rate of 88.6 percent. Among them, a total of 429 parts were used for empirical analysis, except for 14 unsatisfactory questionnaires. The data collected were analyzed using AMOS 25 and SPSS 25.
The results of the research are as follows:
First, the relationship between personal standards perfectionism and job engagement was shown to have a statistically significant positive (+) relationship. Second, the relationship between evaluative concerns perfectionism and job engagement was shown to have a statistically significant negative relationship. Personal standards perfectionism has increased the psychological state of positivity, and evaluative concerns perfectionism has shown the opposite. Third, the relationship between job engagement and innovative behavior has been shown a statistically significant positive (+) relationship. In other words, the higher the job engagement, the more innovative behavior is shown. Fourth, the relationship between personal standards perfectionism and innovative behavior resulted in consistent results with prior research, and the relationship between evaluative concerns perfectionism and innovative behavior was not universally significant. Finally, in the relationship between two perfectionism and innovative behavior, both job engagement been verified for mediated effects.
The results of this study show that, positive perfectionism can cause innovative behavior, which is competitive for companies, but perfectionism, which fears mistakes, can lower job engagement and lower innovative behavior. In addition, through the analysis of the mediated effects of job engagement, we found the importance of establishing an organizational strategy to increase job engagement according to the dynamic characteristics. Thus,organizations will need strategic measures to analyze their personality traits in order to accurately distinguish perfectionism on two levels to enhance their performance.