柔性人力资源管理对组织技术创新的影响及作用机制研究

随着市场环境动态性的逐步增强,如何提升组织的技术创新能力已经成为一个核心的管理议题。本文基于动态能力理论,探索了柔性人力资源管理对组织技术创新的影响,进一步分析了动态能力在其中所起到的中介作用和市场技术变动性在其中所起到的调节作用。本研究以我国357个企业为样本,结果表明资源柔性人力资源管理和协调柔性人力资源管理均有利于促进组织的技术创新;动态能力在资源柔性人力资源管理和组织技术创新之间起部分中介作用,而在协调柔性人力资源管理和组织技术创新之间起完全中介作用。此外,技术变动性调节了动态能力和组织技术创新的关系,技术变动性越强,动态能力对组织技术创新的正向影响就越强。

The Impact of Flexibility-oriented Human Resource Management on Technological Innovation

As the gradual enhancement of the dynamics of environment,the technological innovation has attracted increasing research attention over the past few decades.Although a considerable body of research has identified the significant influence of strategic human resource management on technological innovation,we know little about how to adapt the human resource management to the dynamic environment after matching human resource and technological innovation strategy.A great deal of researchers appealed for further studies to integrate the flexibility and human resource management to promote the transformation of human resource management system and the development of technological innovation.Responding to this appeal,this study focuses on flexibility-oriented human resource management which is defined as a set of internally consistent human resource management practices that enable firms to develop human resources for a wide range of alternative uses(resource-flexibility-oriented human resource management)and enable firms to redeploy those resources quickly and effectively(coordination-flexibility-oriented human resource management).Drawing on the dynamic capability theory,this study investigates the relationship between flexibility-oriented human resource management and technological innovation by focusing on the mediating role of dynamic capability and the moderating role of technological turbulence.Using a sample of 357 companies in China,we found that:(1)both resource-flexibility-oriented human resource management and coordination-flexibility-oriented human resource management are positively related to technological innovation;(2)dynamic capability serves as an important mediator in the relationship between flexibility-oriented human resource management and technological innovation.Specifically,dynamic capability partially mediates the relationship between resource-flexibility-oriented human resource management and technological innovation,while fully mediates the relationship between coordination-flexibility-oriented human resource management and technological innovation;(3)technological turbulence moderates the relationship between dynamic capability and technological innovation such that the positive relationship is stronger when technological turbulence is high rather than when it is low.The theoretical and managerial implications of these results are discussed.