The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Leader Bottom-Line Mentality on Employees'Innovative Behavior from a Cognitive Appraisal Perspective
Through 685 samples from both entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial teams,the study analyzes how and when the leader bottom-line mentality affects employees'innovative behavior from the perspective of stress cognition assessment.The research results indicate that the leader bot-tom-line mentality first makes employees perceive performance stress based on bottom-line goals.Generally,the leader bottom-line mentality has a"double-edged sword"effect on employees'innova-tive behavior.That is,the leader bottom-line mentality not only promotes employees'innovative be-havior through employees'challenging appraisal of performance stress but also inhibits employees'in-novative behavior through employees'hindrance appraisal of performance stress.The team type plays a significant moderating role in the influence mechanism.Specifically,in entrepreneurial teams,the leader bottom-line mentality mainly has a positive impact on employees'innovative behavior through the challenging appraisal of performance stress,while in non-entrepreneurial teams,the leader bot-tom-line mentality mainly has a negative impact on employees'innovative behavior through the hin-drance appraisal of performance stress.
bottom-line mentalityperformance stresscognitive appraisalemployees'innova-tive behaviorentrepreneurial team