Abstract
Purpose/Research Question: Managers of organizations play a significant role in promoting sustainability by enhancing employee job satisfaction and employee creativity. Despite the number of studies on employee job satisfaction, much remains unknown regarding the mediating role of employee job satisfaction in the relationship between management characteristics (such as supervisor humility and abusive supervision) and employee creativity. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate how the links between supervisor humility, abusive supervision, and employee creativity are mediated by employee job satisfaction. Design/Methodology: We collected data from 352 highly skilled employees of manufacturing organizations in the Republic of Korea by conducting an online survey. A structural equation modeling procedure was used to evaluate the validity of the proposed hypotheses. Findings/Results: The results demonstrated that supervisor humility is positively related to employee job satisfaction, while abusive supervision is negatively related to employee job satisfaction. The findings also indicated that employee job satisfaction mediates the relationships between supervisor humility, abusive supervision, and employee creativity. Originality/Value: This work is the first to evaluate employee job satisfaction as a mediator of the link between characteristics of management (such as supervisor humility and abusive supervision) and employee creativity.
Highlights
IntroductionInterest in innovation and sustainability has considerably increased
In recent years, interest in innovation and sustainability has considerably increased
If the values of comparative fit index (CFI) and goodness-of-fit index (GFI) [77] are higher than 0.90, they demonstrate good model fit, whereas values smaller than 0.08 and 0.05 for root means square error of approximation (RMSEA) and SRMR, respectively [78], indicate good model fit. All these model fit indices indicated that the measurement model had acceptable fit (X2 = 651.856; X2/df =1.423; p = 0.001; CFI = 0.977; GFI = 0.897; adjusted goodness-of-fit index (AGFI) = 0.882; RMSEA = 0.035; root mean square residual (RMR) = 0.060 and SRMR = 0.0406) with the dataset
Summary
Interest in innovation and sustainability has considerably increased. Supervisors play a critical role in achieving the sustainability goals of organizations by driving creative effort toward innovation [7] and dealing with social and environmental problems [8]. Ethical leaders who respect followers’ divergent views and values via their advancement of trust and consideration in their relationships can create a sustainable, healthy work environment where subordinates feel more motivated and satisfied [9]. When supervisors undermine employees, these followers feel less satisfied and have lower trust in their supervisors [10]. Characteristics of supervision are a significant factor that may enhance employees’ willingness to put in extra effort to achieve the sustainability goals of the organization by making them satisfied and boosting their creativity
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