Finding Meaning in Relationships:A Study on the Mechanism of How High-Quality Relationships Affect Proactive Behavior and Creative Collaboration
Proactive behavior and creative collaboration have been highly valued by scholars,but the important value of high-quality re-lationships for proactive behavior and creative collaboration has been ignored in previous researches.Based on the theory of meaning con-struction and the theory of social exchange,the mechanism of how high-quality relationships influence proactive behavior and creative collaboration and its boundary conditions are analyzed.The research finds that:(1)High-quality relationships positively affect employ-ees'proactive behavior and creative collaboration;(2)Meaningfulness of work plays a part of the mediating role between high-quality relationships and proactive behavior & creative collaboration;(3)Positive reciprocity beliefs play a moderating role between high-quality relationships and work meaning;(4)Positive and reciprocal beliefs positively regulate the mediating role of meaningfulness of work be-tween high-quality relationships and proactive behavior & creative collaboration.The above research conclusions provide valuable refer-ence and inspiration on how to improve the significance of employees'work and promote their positive behaviors.
high-quality relationshipspositive reciprocity beliefsmeaningfulness of workproactive behaviorcreative collaboration