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标题：A Framework for Research and Practice: Relationship among Mentoring, Power Distance Orientation and Innovative Behavior
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作者：Xiaowen He , Xiao Zhang
期刊名称：Open Journal of Business and Management
印刷版ISSN：2329-3284
电子版ISSN：2329-3292
出版年度：2015
卷号：03
期号：03
页码：250-256
DOI：10.4236/ojbm.2015.33025
语种：English
出版社：Scientific Research Publishing
摘要：It is the foundation to establish sustainable competition for enterprises that keep the ability to create and apply knowledge. As the value of knowledge is mainly instantiated in tacit knowledge, it is important for enterprises to increase the amount of tacit knowledge and apply it. Mentoring is one of typical models to implement knowledge socialization, which is given serious attention by scholars and entrepreneur. However, there is less research that takes cultural values into account when we discuss mentoring. Whether cultural values do influence the effect of implementing mentoring? In different countries, should we adjust measures to local conditions when enterprises implement mentoring? In the research, we theoretically discussed the relationship among mentoring, power distance orientation and innovative behavior, in which we also took psychological safety into account. Research results have indicated that mentoring is positively related to innovation behavior, in which perceived psychological safety plays a mediating role and power distance orientation plays a regulating role. What’ more, protégés’ power distance moderates the positive relationship between mentoring and innovation behavior in such a way that the relationship will be stronger for protégés who are lower rather than higher in power distance.
关键词：Mentoring; Innovative Behavior; Psychological Safety; Power Distance