The Influence of R&D Person’s Passion Type on Innovation Behavior : The Mediating Effects of Positive and Negative Moods

For R&D work, it is important to motivate employees to work hard to reinforce innovation. And different types of passion will affect the individual's innovative behavior. But the mechanism between work passion and innovative behavior is not yet clear. So this study explores the harmonious passion and obsessive passion and innovation between the behaviors of the mediating process. The purpose of this study is to: (1) to explore the different types of work passion for the impact of innovative behavior; (2) to explore the positive and negative mood in the passion type and innovation between the mediating effect. In this study, the data were collected from R&D engineers and their supervisors making a pair of high-tech industry in Taiwan, respectively to the positive mood and negative mood, to explore the type of work passion affect the path of innovation. And the LISREL software was used to validate the scale with 267 samples. The structural equation model was used to verify the mediating hypothesis. The results show that: (1) there is a positive relationship between harmonious passion and innovation behavior; (2) there is a positive relationship between obsessive passion and innovation behavior; (3) positive mood for the harmonious passion of the innovative behavior of the mediating variables; (4) negative mood is not obsessive passion for innovative behavior of the mediating variables. According to the results of the study, this study proposes the following management implications: (1) to put the passion of the work into the recruiting Research and Development (R&D) personnel considerations; (2) to promote R&D personnel in the work of a sense of accomplishment to improve the harmonious passion; (3) to promote and maintain the positive mood of R&D personnel to facilitate innovative behavior