ISSN 2756-3308
African Journal of Estate and Property Management ISSN 9671-8498 Vol. 5 (7), pp. 001-008, July, 2018. © International Scholars Journals
Full Length Research Paper
Influence of work support on employee creativity: An empirical examination in the Peoples Republic of China
Duanxu Wang, Huijuan Xue* and Hongling Su
School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, Peoples Republic of China.
Accepted 18 April, 2018
Abstract
Employee creativity makes an important contribution to organizational survival and development. Hence, researchers have become increasingly interested in identifying the conditions that influence employee creativity. One of these conditions is work support for creativity. In the PRC, work support has received more considerable research attention because it is related to “Guanxi” which plays a key role in organizational behavior. Unfortunately, the mechanism surrounding the support-creativity link is not well understood. To help address this situation, we examined the mediating roles of intrinsic motivation and positive mood in the effect of support from both supervisors and coworkers on employee creativity. Using data from 233 employees in the PRC, we hypothesized and found that (1) work support from both supervisors and coworkers was positively related to employee creativity, (2) intrinsic motivation mediated these relationships, (3) positive mood mediated the relationship between the support from supervisors and creativity, but not the relationship between support from coworkers and creativity. Implications of these results for research and practice were discussed.
Key words: Work support from supervisors, work support from coworkers, intrinsic motivation, positive mood, employee creativity.