The Strength of the Relationship of Self-Efficacy and Innovative Work Behavior

Abstract

Organizations that want to maintain their position at a competitive level need innovative behavior from their members. Innovative behavior is indispensable in overcoming the ongoing challenges facing organizations. Increased innovative behavior can be built through strengthening self-efficacy. Confidence in the self-ability of members of the organization has a close relationship with actions in exploring opportunities, generating ideas, promoting and realizing them and reflecting on their professional work. The relationship between self-efficacy and innovative behavior is discussed implicitly in scientific journals, but only a few directly link the two variables. This meta-analysis study was conducted to determine the strength of the relationship between self-efficacy and innovative work behavior by measuring effect sizes in 7 international journals published in the last 10 years. The results of the analysis using the Random Effect model show that there was a significant positive correlation between self-efficacy and innovative behavior (z = 5.419; p < 0.001; 95% CI [0.300-0.639]). The effect of self-efficacy on innovative behavior is included in the moderate category (r = 0.469). This finding proves that self-efficacy has a positive and significant correlation to work innovative behavior.