Work-life Conflict and Innovative Behavior Examination in Telecommuting Era Perspective

The innovation climate is influence by leadership, the organizational environment, and the individuals who are its members. Thus, employee’s innovative behavior becomes the company's valuable capital to remain superior and difficult to imitate. Previous studies about innovative behavior discover psychological capital's positive influence on innovative actions. The health protocol adoption changes work arrangements and patterns since it limits the physical interactions between individuals and groups. Work patterns are changing using virtual communication and prioritizing telecommuting to limit employee commuting. Furthermore, it increases work-life interference, switches many boundaries, and creating tensions between the work-life domain. This condition requires a company's ability to build a positive organizational environment psychologically becomes essential to trigger employees' intrinsic motivation for innovation. However, the research conducted so far carries out in the era before the health protocol implementation related to the Covid-19 pandemic, when employees could typically interact in a face-to-face situation at that time. Therefore, the output of this work-setting shifting and restriction on physical interaction situation on innovative employee behavior requires further research. Through quantitative data collection, it intends to bridge the knowledge gap on how work-life conflict affects innovative behavior in different work settings.