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How Job Creativity Requirements Affects Employee Creativity: Evidence From a Across-Level Analysis
Yingshuang Ma1, Haomin Zhang2, Yi Dai2,3
1Institute of Business, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, China.
Frontiers in Psychology
|January 14, 2022
Summary
Employee creativity is enhanced when job demands require creativity, with engagement in the creative process acting as a key mediator. Team knowledge sharing further influences this relationship.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Psychology
- Management Science
Background:
- Job creativity requirements are increasingly important for organizational innovation.
- Understanding the mechanisms linking job demands to employee creativity is crucial.
- The Pygmalion perspective offers a lens to examine employee potential and performance.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the mediating role of creative process engagement in the job creativity requirement-employee creativity link.
- To examine the moderating effect of team knowledge sharing on this relationship.
- To test a multilevel theoretical framework using empirical data.
Main Methods:
- Data collected from 71 supervisors and 453 employees across three Chinese companies.
- Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) version 6.08 applied for cross-level analysis.
- Pygmalion perspective and multilevel theoretical framework utilized.
Main Results:
- Creative process engagement significantly mediates the positive relationship between job creativity requirement and employee creativity.
- Team knowledge sharing was found to moderate the interplay between job creativity requirement, employee creativity, and creative process engagement.
- The multilevel model provided support for the hypothesized relationships.
Conclusions:
- Job creativity requirements foster employee creativity through enhanced engagement in the creative process.
- Team knowledge sharing acts as a crucial boundary condition, influencing how job demands translate into creative outcomes.
- Findings offer insights for managers seeking to cultivate employee creativity within their teams.
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