The Effect of Social Relationships on the Innovative Behavior of Employees Mediated by Psychological Wellbeing in Pharmaceutical Industry of Pakistan

Abstract

The primary purpose of this research is to recognize the impact of capacities of high quality relationship or social relationships on the innovative or creative work behavior of employees within an organization in the pharmaceutical sector of Islamabad, Pakistan. So, the present study contributes to the existing literature because these are the concepts which are relevant to every organization and its part of every working environment. In September, 2015 about 250 questionnaires were circulated and only 230 were completely filled with a response rate of 92 %. The sample was adequate for analysis and SPSS 16 and AMOS 22 were used to analyze the data the results concluded that capacities of high quality of relationships are correlated with innovative behavior of employees and psychological wellbeing have the ability to mediate this relationship. Employees feel psychologically relaxed when they have the emotional carrying capacity, tensility and connectivity to work innovatively for the organization. Research questionnaires were used to record the responses and the study was quantitative in nature but qualitative research on this topic can be done. This study also has some limitations while some suggestions are also provided to improve the context.