The Impact of Grandiose Narcissism and Vulnerable Narcissism on Employee Innovative Work Behavior: The Role of Job Embeddedness

Abstract

: Employee innovative work behavior is crucial in order to achieve organizational objectives and its success. The purpose of this research is to determine the influence of grandiose narcissism and vulnerable narcissism on job embeddedness and employee innovative work behavior, as well as the influence of job embeddedness on innovative work behavior of mid-level managers, upper level managers, and supervisors of private organizations in IT sector of Pakistan. The researcher employed a questionnaire that utilized a set of questions that measure grandiose narcissism, vulnerable narcissism, job embeddedness, and employee innovative work behavior. The results showed that grandiose narcissism has a significant impact on job embeddedness and employee innovative work behavior; on the other hand, vulnerable narcissism has an insignificant impact on job embeddedness and employee innovative work behavior. Job embeddedness does lead to innovative work behavior. Private organizations of IT sector in Pakistan are supposed to encourage employee job embeddedness in order to promote innovative work behavior that leads to organization’s growth and creativity. Mediating effect can be checked in the future research and this research could be conducted in different contexts.