Challenge–Hindrance Stressors and Innovation：A meta-analysis

Abstract: In this article, a meta-analysis method was used to examine the relationships between challenging-hindrance stressors and employee innovation with 149 independent samples (N=46261), findings showed that: (1) Challenging stressor and subgroup's - work complexity and task conflict have a significantly positive correlation with employee innovation. While hindrance stressor had a significantly negative correlation with employee innovation. (2) Compared with individualism orientation, under the background of high collectivism orientation, high power distance, and a long-term orientation, the hindrance stressor had a stronger and significantly negative correlation with employee innovation, while under the background of high collectivism orientation, the hindrance stressor had a significantly positive correlation with employee innovation. (3) Compared with other-rating, when the data comes from employee self-rating, challenge stressor had a stronger and significantly positive correlation with innovation, and hindrance stressor had a stronger and significantly negative correlation with innovation. (4) Compared with longitudinal study, in the cross-sectional study, challenging stressor has a stronger positive effect on employee innovation, while data collection time has insignificant moderating effect on the relationship between hindrance stressor and employee innovation. "