Organizations often empower employees at all levels to propose innovation ideas that rely on their first-hand knowledge … of their standard task (i.e. employee-initiated innovation). Many, however, struggle with motivating employees to develop … incentivized do not explicitly include innovation. Prior analytical research posits that low-powered incentives can motivate …

.e., standard tasks) influences workers’ propensity to engage in employee-initiated innovation (EII). EII corresponds to innovation …). In contrast, we find no difference attributable to standard task incentive design in the proposal of innovation ideas … employees’ conceptual focus around the standard task and hinders employee engagement in broad-scope innovation activities …