Drawing on the literature on innovation climate and employee attitudes, we discuss how innovations could impact job satisfaction. Using lagged predictors and relevant control variables, we investigate empirically this relationship on a large sample of French firms. Our estimation results show that employees in companies that engage in innovation activities are more likely to report increased job satisfaction. Moreover, building on previous organizational research arguing that layoffs are likely to create detrimental workplace atmosphere and conditions, we test whether the relationship between innovation and job satisfaction is moderated by downsizing decisions among the examined firms. We draw several theoretical and managerial implications.

利用有关创新环境和员工态度的文献，我们讨论了创新如何影响工作满意度。使用滞后预测变量和相关控制变量，我们在大量法国公司样本上实证研究了这种关系。我们的估计结果表明，从事创新活动的公司的员工更有可能报告工作满意度有所提高。此外，基于先前的组织研究认为裁员可能会造成有害的工作场所氛围和条件，我们测试了创新和工作满意度之间的关系是否会通过缩小被调查公司的决策来缓和。我们得出了几个理论和管理启示。