# Employee strategic goal sight and strategic action: the moderating role of openness to experience

## TL;DR

This study explores how employees' awareness of strategic goals affects their actions, with openness to experience playing a moderating role.

## Contribution

The paper introduces the concept of employee strategic goal sight and identifies openness to experience as a key moderator.

## Key findings

- Employee strategic goal sight positively influences strategic actions.
- Perceived insider status mediates the relationship between strategic goal sight and actions.
- Openness to experience weakens the effect of strategic goal sight on actions.

## Abstract

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.

(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.