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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Organizational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1434575
This article is part of the Research Topic Employee Resilience View all 6 articles
Employee strategic goal sight and strategic action: the moderating role of openness to experience
Provisionally accepted
Xin xin Li 1
Xiao Jie Lu 2* Feng Hu 3*
Zeng qing Wei 3* Jun Xiao 1 Juan Peng 3 Zhi xuan Gao 3
Shichang Liang 3- 1 China Tobacco Guangxi Industrial (China), Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Region, China
- 2 Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Highway Development Center, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Region, China
- 3 School of Business, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Region, China
Scholars have examined various factors influencing employee actions, such as goal congruence, personality traits, and job fit. However, they have overlooked employees' strategic goal sight. This paper investigates how employees' strategic goal sight affects their strategic actions and explores the moderating influence of their openness to experience. A questionnaire survey of 908 employees from various companies was conducted, and data analysis was performed using AMOS and SPSS, revealing that: (1) Employee strategic goal sight significantly influences employee strategic actions positively; (2) Perceived insider status acts as a mediator between employee strategic goal sight and employee strategic actions; and (3) Openness to experience moderates this effect, as evidenced by: With increasing levels of employees' openness to experience, the positive impact of their strategic goal sight on perceived insider status and strategic actions gradually diminishes. These findings not only enhance understanding of the relationship between employees' strategic goal sight and strategy but also offer significant implications for guiding employees to engage in strategic behaviors that foster the company's strategic development.
Keywords: Employee strategic goal sight, Strategic action, perceived insider status, Openness to experience, Strategic development
Received: 18 May 2024; Accepted: 07 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Li, Lu, Hu, Wei, Xiao, Peng, Gao and Liang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Xiao Jie Lu, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Highway Development Center, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Region, China
Feng Hu, School of Business, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, Guangxi Zhuang Region, China
Zeng qing Wei, School of Business, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, Guangxi Zhuang Region, China
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