Abstract
Previous research has suggested that employees’ proactive personality can enhance their creative performance. However, studies that address the underlying mechanism of the effect of proactive personality on creative performance have been scarce. Additionally, contextual factors that could serve as useful conditions have received insufficient academic attention. Therefore, the present study proposed that creative self-efficacy serves as a mediator and psychological safety serves as a moderator in the positive relationship between employees’ proactive personality and their creative performance. The results of a large-scale survey revealed that a proactive personality was positively associated with creative performance. Furthermore, we found that the positive relationship between a proactive personality and creative performance was positively mediated by creative self-efficacy and further strengthened by psychological safety. Additionally, we found that psychological safety influenced the mediating role of creative self-efficacy in the link between employees’ proactive personality and creative performance. We have discussed theoretical and practical implications with future research directions.
Highlights
Creativity is viewed as a key milestone of sustainable business growth in the current corporate world [1]
To test the integrated moderated mediation (Hypothesis 4), we investigated whether the indirect effect of proactive personality on creative performance via creative self-efficacy was moderated by psychological safety
We found that the positive effects of a proactive personality on creative performance were influenced by the level of psychological safety perceived by employees
Summary
Creativity is viewed as a key milestone of sustainable business growth in the current corporate world [1]. Identified a positive association between proactive personality and innovative behavior of employees In contrast to these previous studies, this study will examine the role of proactive personality for direct creative performance rather than employee’s personal and psychological trait, and attitude toward creative activity, and extend findings of previous studies to the context of the Korean workplace. We propose that the indirect positive association between proactive personality and creative performance via creative self-efficacy may highly depend on creating a supportive and safe workplace climate to generate employees’ psychological safety. This will provide the understanding of integrated picture linking proactive personality to creative performance of employees by identifying the moderated mediating role of psychological safety which has not been considered properly in the previous studies. In light of the findings, important theoretical and practical implications are presented
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