Innovation is crucial for public organizations to adapt to changing circumstances. While successful innovation requires employees both to explore new ideas and to exploit current processes, such innovative work behavior is often bounded by constraints, both situational and personal. This study examines individual-level constraints on innovation by focusing on cognitive uncertainty as a personal state that may affect innovative work behavior. Using a quantitative daily diary study among public professionals in the Netherlands ( n = 88 respondents and 369 diary entries), the analysis identifies a positive relationship between daily cognitive uncertainty experiences and daily employee innovative work behavior. However, this relationship is only present when employees perceive substantial support from their team leader. This support takes the form of ambidextrous leadership, which mirrors the duality of the innovation process and is shown to be most effective in stimulating innovative work behavior and in managing cognitive uncertainty in stimulating innovation.

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认知不确定性与员工日常创新工作行为：双元领导的调节作用

创新对于公共组织适应不断变化的环境至关重要。虽然成功的创新需要员工探索新想法并利用当前流程，但这种创新工作行为往往受到情境和个人的限制。本研究通过关注认知不确定性作为可能影响创新工作行为的个人状态，探讨了个人层面对创新的限制。通过对荷兰公共专业人员（n = 88 名受访者和 369 篇日记条目）进行的定量每日日记研究，该分析确定了日常认知不确定性体验与日常员工创新工作行为之间的正相关关系。然而，只有当员工感受到团队领导的大力支持时，这种关系才会存在。这种支持采取双元领导的形式，反映了创新过程的二元性，并被证明在刺激创新工作行为和管理刺激创新中的认知不确定性方面最有效。