Study on the Influence of Employees’ Information Literacy on Innovative Behavior

Abstract

           In today’s information age, information literacy has a very important impact on individuals and organizations. Many enterprises have obtained a certain amount of data and information, but they may not be able to make good use of this information and bring innovation. Whether information literacy can promote innovative behavior and how to affect innovative behavior are very worthy of discussion. This study holds that information literacy may impact innovative behavior through creative self-efficacy. Therefore, this study takes employees’ information literacy as an independent variable, creative self-efficacy as an intermediary variable, and employees’ innovative behavior as a dependent variable to explore the relationship among the three. The statistical results show that the four dimensions of information literacy have a significant positive impact on innovative behavior; the three dimensions namely information consciousness, information ability and information ethics have significant positive impacts on creative self-efficacy, while information knowledge has no significant impact on creative self-efficacy; employees’ creative self-efficacy has a significant positive impact on innovative behavior; creative self-efficacy mediates the relationship between employees’ information literacy and innovative behavior. Enterprises should attach importance to the training and guidance of employees from different aspects of information literacy, so as to more effectively stimulate employees’ innovative behavior and improve the innovation performance of enterprises as a whole.