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  • Organizational Psychology
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Empirical evidence increasingly links prosocial impact at work to enhanced creativity and innovation.
  • Self-determination theory provides a framework for understanding employee motivation and well-being.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the mediating role of basic psychological needs and benevolence satisfaction in the relationship between perceived social impact and innovative work behavior and creativity.
  • To examine the moderating effect of prosocial motivation on the relationship between benevolence satisfaction and innovativeness.

Main Methods:

  • Quantitative study with 528 participants from Greece and Canada.
  • Survey methodology measuring perceived social impact, prosocial motivation, psychological needs satisfaction (autonomy, competence, benevolence), innovative work behavior, and creativity.

Main Results:

  • Perceived social impact and prosocial motivation positively correlate with innovative work behavior and creativity.
  • Autonomy and competence satisfaction mediate the link between perceived social impact and these work outcomes.
  • Prosocial motivation moderates the relationship between benevolence satisfaction and innovativeness.

Conclusions:

  • Prosocial impact at work significantly enhances creativity and innovation through the satisfaction of psychological needs.
  • Organizations should foster environments that support employees' prosocial initiatives to boost inventive behaviors.
  • Findings contribute to understanding prosociality's role in workplace creativity and innovation.