Research On The Relationship Among Rewards、Innovation Motivation And Innovation Performance

At the call of "Mass Entrepreneurship and People Innovation" policy in China, innovation is a new driving force to hasten the development and transformation of China’s economy, with numerous of innovative activities and campaigns springing up recently. Therefore, it is practically significant to research on the incentive mechanism of innovation, which is in line with the whole circumstances.Reward is the employee’s labor value purchased by enterprises, with the fact the labor value being the most direct method and ingredient to motivate the employees. Innovation motivation is the psychological and behavioral preferences of individuals when they are facing innovative circumstances and situations, and also a significant factor to stimulate innovative activities.Innovation performance is the innovative achievements accomplished because of applying,optimizing and executing new practical ideas or methods. Therefore, in the context of China’s social and cultural background, this article introduces materialistic values as moderating variables and researches on the relationship among rewards, innovation motivation and innovation performance,which theoretically enlarges the scope of functional situations of innovation, and to some extent, helps establish an innovation management system which corresponds to China’s recent context.Firstly, referring to both domestically and internationally existing research results, this article discusses the connotation, measurement, influence factors or related theories of each research variables respectively. Then this article investigates the correlation between/among research variables.At the last, it summarizes the literature review, and points out both contributions and deficiency of existing theories.Secondly, in order to control the impact of the rewards categories on the research, this article selects Pay for Performance (PFP) to carry out the investigation. After the questionnaire and related empirical analysis of a sample of 273 employees from 7 high-tech companies, several conclusions are drawn based on Self-Determination Theory (SDT ):(1) PFP was significantly and negatively correlated with innovation performance;(2) PFP was significantly and negatively correlated with innovation motivation;(3) Innovation motivation was significantly and positively correlated with innovation performance;(4) Innovation Motivation was found to partially mediate the association between PFP and innovation performance;(5) Materialistic values did not have any moderating effect on PFP and innovation performance;(6) Materialistic values significantly moderated the mediating effect of motivation motivation.Finally, combining the conclusions above and the deficiency of existing researches, this article puts forward potential research fields later on and gives corresponding management implications,which is of great significance both theoretically and practically.