The Influence of Creative Process Engagement on Employee Creative Performance and Overall Job Performance: A Curvilinear Assessment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Zhang, Xiaomeng; Bartol, Kathryn M.
• 署名单位: University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; American University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0020173
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 862-873
• 关键词: CREATIVE PROCESS; CREATIVE PERFORMANCE; creativity; Job performance; work experience

摘要

Integrating theories addressing attention and activation with creativity literature, we found an inverted U-shaped relationship between creative process engagement and overall job performance among professionals in complex jobs in an information technology firm. Work experience moderated the curvilinear relationship, with low-experience employees generally exhibiting higher levels of overall job performance at low to moderate levels of creative process engagement and high-experience employees demonstrating higher overall performance at moderate to high levels of creative process engagement. Creative performance partially mediated the relationship between creative process engagement and job performance. These relationships were tested within a moderated mediation framework.