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Factors associated with innovative climate: what is the role of stress?

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We explored the role of occupational stress as a potential determinant of innovative climate by using samples of employees from health care organizations and from enterprises in the metal and retail industries (total N=1767). Factor analyses of the responses to a questionnaire suggested that stress represents a distinguishable element independent of other correlates of innovative climate, including, for example, goal clarity, sufficiency of feedback and communication. In multiple regression analyses, high stress was associated with poor innovative climate but did not moderate the effects of other correlates on innovativeness. The results were reproduced across different samples and different measures of the concepts and remained constant after the adjustment within samples for the respondent's demographics and type of organization (manufacturing vs service and private vs public). Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.