Abstract
Due to globalization, the competitiveness of enterprises from past regional competitions extends to international competitions. If the enterprise insists to be original business mode, the organization will be gradually to decline. Therefore, the key to survive is the innovativeness that allow the enterprises to have a chance for getting competitive advantage. However, the critical issue about how to improve the degree of innovativeness is the team members’ motivation. It stimulates members’ expectation and generates some kind of behavior such as personal initiative which help enhance organizational performance. Based on the organization behavior theory, the stress and the quality of team member exchange relationship associate the strength of the behaviors. The analysis unit in this study is team. This study examined team member exchange quality, personal initiative, and team innovativeness through the lens of different types of stress. Convenience sampling method was used to collect data from manufacturing, oil energy, design and financial industry. Besides the invalid or incomplete questionnaires, there were 61 work team valid questionnaires. This research adopted structural equation modeling (SEM) to analysis the collected data. SPSS 16.0 and SmartPLS were used for statistical analysis. The results of this research are as follow: (1) Team-member exchange quality is positively related to personal initiative. (2) Hindrance stress is negatively related to personal initiative. (3) Personal initiative is positively related to team innovativeness. (4) Personal initiative partially mediates the relationship between team innovativeness and hindrance stress. (5) Personal initiative fully mediates the relationship between team innovativeness and team member exchange quality. (6) Hindrance stress moderates the relationship between team member exchange quality and personal initiative. However, we did not find out support for the relationship between challenge stress and personal initiative, so did the moderator role of challenge stress in the relationship between team member exchange quality and personal initiative.