“…Individuals with high levels of thriving at work had more positive expectations and higher goal‐setting, and in pursuit of improved personal performance and long‐term development, they may adopt innovative work behavior as an effective way (Park, 2019). Thriving at work was found to mediate the relationship between challenge stress and proactive behavior in R & D personnel in the military industry (Xuan, Zhang, Li, Zhou, & Zhou, 2020), and the effect of challenge stress on identity orientation among employees in the e‐banking sector (Saleem, Humayun, Latif, Iftikhar, & Sharif, 2020). Innovation involves a cognitive need for complexity and requires the ability to think in combination with one's own experiences and task requirements (Gilson, Mathieu, Shalley, & Ruddy, 2005), so individuals who experience thriving at work are more likely to develop innovative work behaviors.…”