In the current enterprise management environment, employee anxiety has become a familiar and serious problem, affecting the work efficiency of employees and the overall operation effect of enterprises. The incentive means of enterprise management innovation reform may help alleviate employees’ anxiety.

This study adopted a randomized controlled trial to select two representative enterprises, in which one enterprise (intervention group) implemented the incentive means of innovation reform, and the other enterprise (control group) maintained the original management style. Incentives for innovation and reform mainly include providing more career development opportunities, improving the working environment, and enhancing employee welfare. The self-rating anxiety Scale and job satisfaction questionnaire were used to evaluate the two groups of employees at regular intervals. The analysis software is SPSS23.0.

The six-month experiment found that employees in the control group experienced a significantly higher reduction in SAS scores than those in the control group and improved considerably job satisfaction. The average SAS score decreased by 30% in the intervention group, while the average SAS score decreased by only 5% in the control group. The intervention group reported a 20 percent increase in job satisfaction.

The innovation reform and incentive means of enterprise management can effectively alleviate the anxiety symptoms of employees and improve their job satisfaction. This provides enterprises a practical way to improve employees’ psychological state and work efficiency.

In 2021, the horizontal scientific research project of Tianjin Sino German University of Applied Sciences (No. H2021-063).