Innovative Work Behavior (IWB) of employees is one of the essential requirements for organizations to excel in competition in today's dynamic world. Nowadays, organizations can keep the current pace through competitive advantage. But to acquire competitive advantage, employees must be creative and innovative in their work-related behaviors. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Pakistan are suffering several challenges in this regard. Therefore, current study is designed to examine the role of negative events and negative leadership on the IWB of the employees with mediating role of Psychological Well-being (PsyWB). Further, the moderating role of Perceived Organizational Support (POS) has also been tested. The negative event used in current research is Workplace Incivility (WPI) and Despotic Leadership (DL) from the negative leadership styles examined. Results of the current study showed that the presence of WPI and DL in organizations damage the IWB of employees as they harm the PsyWB of employees. We find that PsyWB mediated the relationship among DL, WPI, and IWB. POS is helpful for employees to overcome the negative issues prevailing in the organizations. The SMEs need to construct policies to eradicate WPI and must discourage despotic personalities to make the environment favorable for employees to protect their IWB. There must be some events that can increase the positive PsyWB of employees to make them more creative and motivated. Likewise, POS must be at sufficient level so that employees feel safe and healthy in all respects.

Department of Accountancy College of Administrative and Financial Sciences Saudi Electronic University Riyadh 11673 Saudi Arabia

Department of Business Administration Ghazi University Dera Ghazi Khan Pakistan

Department of Commerce Faculty of Managemet Sciences University of Kotli 11100 AJK Pakistan

Department of Management Sciences Faculty of Management Sciences and IT Mohi Ud Din Islamic University Nerian Sharif AJ and K Pakistan

Department of Trade and Finance Faculty of Economics and Management Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Czech Republic

John von Neumann University Hungary 6000 Kecskemét Izsáki út 10 Hungary

Technical University of Kosice Faculty of Mining Ecology Process Control and Geotechnologies Letna 1 9 042 00 Kosice Slovakia

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