Can Employee-Friendly Workplace Practices Improve Innovation Productivity? An Organizational Identification Perspective

Drawing on the organizational identification perspective, this paper proposes that employee-friendly workplace practices can positively impact employees' innovation productivity through their identification with the organization. Using a sample of 2642 firm-year observations from public firms in the United States, a positive relationship was found between employee-friendly workplace practices and employee innovation productivity, which was mediated by identification with the organization. The results also showed that the employee professional human capital dampened the relationship between employee-friendly workplace practices and employee innovation productivity. Finally, the mediated relationship between employee-friendly workplace practices and employees' innovation productivity through organizational identification was moderated by employees' professional human capital, such as when employees are credentialed knowledge workers.