Antecedences of employees’ creativity: Evidence from IT, Educational and Advertisement sectors of Pakistan

Abdullah Shahid,Danish Ahmed Siddiqui

doi:10.5296/hrr.v4i1.16780

Abstract

This study aims to propose elaborative theoretical framework to assess factors that influences creativity. We combine (Teresa M. Amabile et al., 1996; Jothi & Hin, 2015; Lin & Liu, 2012; Yeh & Huan, 2017) models featuring work and its environmental related factors into one holistic framework to assess the antecedents and consequence of creativity. We propose two level mediation to assess the effect of environmental variables on innovation and motivations through creativity as well as Job Stressors. Environmental factors included Leaders Behavior, Freedom, Resources, Social Support, Workload, Perceived Organizational Support, Person job fit, and Challenging work. Perceived Organizational Support was further affected by Organizational impediments, Supervisory encouragement, and Work group supports. These factors influences Job Stressors that include Challenge and Hindrance stressors, and work pressures in environment. These stressors further affect creativity as proposed by Zhang & Wee (2018). We also categorize creativity into Quantity and Quality as per Yeh & Huan, (2017). Empirical validity was established by conducting a survey of employees in high creativity sectors like IT, Educational and Advertisement. Result shows that among work and environmental factors, only Leaders Behavior, Perceived Organizational Support, and Challenging work significantly affect job stressors. On the contrary, job stressors significantly affect both Quantity and Quality of creativity. However, subsequent effect of creativity on innovation and motivation could not be established.

Highlights

1.1 Background to the StudyCreativity is prominently well known and celebrated for generation of novel and useful ideas for any organization that works for satisfying peoples’ evolving needs, for that organization are in need to form a trustworthiness among the employees and indulge them decision making processes, appreciating the workers and establishing appropriate norms that employees deserve, in such environment one can see creativity grow and eventually obtain benefits (Ohly, 2018)
We propose two level mediation to assess the effect of environmental variables on innovation and motivations through creativity as well as Job Stressors
Most important significance of this study is that we propose a frame work which include different dimensions of workload and creativity, namely.These dimensions will benefit the organization to tackle the impact of workload on creativity

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Introduction

1.1 Background to the StudyCreativity is prominently well known and celebrated for generation of novel and useful ideas for any organization that works for satisfying peoples’ evolving needs, for that organization are in need to form a trustworthiness among the employees and indulge them decision making processes, appreciating the workers and establishing appropriate norms that employees deserve, in such environment one can see creativity grow and eventually obtain benefits (Ohly, 2018). Many organizational behavior researchers are putting great attention to workload because it is effecting employee psychological health and wellbeing and effecting organizational performance (Jex et al, 2001). Most organizational behavior researcher putting great attention to workload because it effecting employee psychological health and wellbeing and effecting organizational performance (Jex, Bliese, Buzzell, & Primeau, 2001). In their continuous effort to discover the new paradigms, organization are trying to establish individual creativity (Gu et al, 2013). There is no limitation on individual’s creativity it can be taught and improve (Landau, 1937)

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