Personal correlates of creative performance: A systematic review

Area of Science:

• Organizational Psychology
• Human Resource Management

Background:

• Creative performance is crucial for organizational innovation, problem-solving, and competitiveness.
• Understanding individual factors associated with creative behavior is essential for enhancing employee creativity.

Purpose of the Study:

• To comprehensively review and integrate findings on individual factors linked to employees' creative job performance.
• To identify and categorize personal factors influencing creative behavior in the workplace.

Main Methods:

• A systematic review and meta-analysis of 82 empirical studies on creative job performance.
• Identification and categorization of 79 personal factors across eight distinct groups.

Main Results:

• Key factors positively associated with creative performance include openness (rw=0.46), intrinsic motivation (rw=0.39), creative self-efficacy (rw=0.45), and positive affect (rw=0.31).
• Educational level (rw=0.19) and creative process engagement (rw=0.52) also showed significant positive correlations.
• The review identified 79 personal factors across demographic, personality, cognitive, motivational, emotional, and self-efficacy domains.

Conclusions:

• The findings expand the understanding of creative performance's nomological network.
• Results suggest practical applications for human resource processes, including employee selection, training, and performance evaluation.
• Future research directions are proposed to further elucidate the drivers of employee creativity.