Proactive personality and employee creativity : The effects of job creativity requirement and supervisor support for creativity

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Author(s)

  • Tae-Yeol Kim
  • Alice H.Y. Hon
  • Deog-Ro Lee

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)37-45
Journal / PublicationCreativity Research Journal
Volume22
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2010

Abstract

This study examined the relationships between proactive personality and employee creativity and the moderating roles of job creativity requirement and supervisor support for creativity in activating proactive personality associated with employee creativity. To provide a rigorous test of the hypotheses, we conducted a field study from a sample of 157 employee-supervisor pairs in South Korea. The results revealed that a proactive personality was positively associated with employee creativity. In addition, job creativity requirement and supervisor support for creativity jointly influenced the relationship between proactive personality and employee creativity. Specifically, proactive employees exhibited the highest employee creativity when job creativity requirement and supervisor support for creativity were both high. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.