An investigation on the mediating role of employee innovation behavior on the relationship between autonomy and reward

Organizations use various methods to improve their employee’s performance. Rewards and autonomy are seen as methods that can improve employee’s performance. The goal of this study is to analyze the mediating role of employee innovation behavior on the relationship between autonomy and rewarding and employee’s performance. Additionally, the differences of employee innovation behavior, autonomy, rewarding and employee’s performance according to demographic variables are investigated. The results showed that employee innovation behavior is a partial mediator of the relationship between rewarding and employee’s performance and employee innovation behavior is a full mediator of the relationship between autonomy and employee’s performance. Furthermore, results revealed that perception of rewarding, perception of autonomy and employee innovation behavior is significantly different according to professional tenure of respondents. And perception of autonomy is significantly different according to organizational tenure.