Influence of Curiosity Characteristics on Employees Creativity: A Serial Mediation Analysis with Creative Self-Efficacy and Psychological Safety
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
The purposes of this study were to investigate (1) the relationships between curiosity characteristics, creative self-efficacy, psychological safety and creativity of employees and (2) the serial mediating roles of creative self-efficacy and psychological safety in the relationships between curiosity characteristics and creativity of employees. The samples of this study were 308 employees of the private organizations in Thailand who have worked for at least one year. The reliabilities of the scales (Cronbach’s alpha) were from .66 to .90. This research used Pearson correlation coefficient to study the relationships between variables and used hierarchical multiple regression analysis and bootstrap method to test the hypotheses and the mediation effect in the model 6 of process macro of Hayes (2013). This study found that curiosity characteristics had the partial mediation effect on employees’ creativity significantly when having the creative self-efficacy and the psychological safety as continuous mediators.
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
1) The content of article in HROD journal is the author’s wholly responsibility to research, analyze, summarize, compile, and reference data. The editorial department will not be responsible in anyway.
2) The submitted articles in HROD journal must be unpublished before and must not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. If it is detected for its repetition, the author must be responsible for infringement of copyright.
3) Authors will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the Publisher. The article is prohibited to reproduce all or part of the text, unless allowed.
References
ศุภรักษ์ ฟูเต็มวงค์ (2561). ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างการแลกเปลี่ยนความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างผู้นำกับผู้ใต้บังคับบัญชาและความคิดสร้างสรรค์ของพนักงาน: บทบาทการเป็นตัวแปรสื่อของการเสริมสร้างอำนาจเชิงจิตใจและแรงจูงใจภายใน [การค้นคว้าอิสระปริญญามหาบัณฑิต ไม่ได้ตีพิมพ์]. มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่.
Adecco Group Thailand. (2017). The importance of soft skills in a digital world. Retrieved from https://www.adecco.com.au/media/adecco-au/client/pdf/The-Importance-of-Soft-Skills-in-the-Digital-Age.pdf
Adobe. (2016). State of create: 2016. Retrieved from https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/max/pdfs/AdobeStateofCreate_2016_Report_Final.pdf
Agarwal, P., & Farndale, E. (2017). High‐performance work systems and creativity implementation: the role of psychological capital and psychological safety. Human Resource Management Journal, 27(3), 440-458. https://doi.org/ 10.1111/1748-8583.12148
Amabile, T. M., & Pratt, M. G. (2016). The dynamic componential model of creativity and innovation in organizations: Making progress, making meaning. Research in Organizational Behavior, 36, 157-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.riob.2016.10.001
Bajcar, B., & Babiak, J. (2020). Neuroticism and cyberchondria: The mediating role of intolerance of uncertainty and defensive pessimism. Personality and Individual Differences, 162, 110006. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110006
Bandura, A. (1997). Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. W.H. Freeman and Company.
Bandura, A. (1988). Organisational applications of social cognitive theory. Australian Journal of management, 13(2), 275-302. https://doi.org/10.1177/031289628801300210
Beghetto, R. A., & Karwowski, M. (2017). Toward untangling creative self-beliefs. In M. Karwowski & J. C. Kaufman (Eds.), The creative self: Effect of beliefs, self-efficacy, mindset, and identity (pp. 3–22). Elsevier Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809790-8.00001-7
Caniëls, M. C., & Rietzschel, E. F. (2015). Organizing creativity: Creativity and innovation under constraints. Creativity and Innovation Management, 24(2), 184-196. https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.12123
Carmeli, A., & Gittell, J. H. (2009). High‐quality relationships, psychological safety, and learning from failures in work organizations. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 30(6), 709-729. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.565
Chang, Y. Y., & Shih, H. Y. (2018). Work curiosity: A new lens for understanding employee creativity. Human Resource Management Review, 29(4), 100672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2018.10.005
Chen, L., Wadei, K. A., Bai, S., & Liu, J. (2020). Participative leadership and employee creativity: A sequential mediation model of psychological safety and creative process engagement. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 41(6), 741-759. https://doi.org/10.1108/LODJ-07-2019-0319
Choi, S. B., Ullah, S. M., & Kang, S. W. (2021). Proactive personality and creative performance: Mediating roles of creative self-efficacy and moderated mediation role of psychological safety. Sustainability, 13(22), 12517. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132212517
Chui, H., Li, H., & Ngo, H. Y. (2020). Linking protean career orientation with career optimism: Career adaptability and career decision self-efficacy as mediators. Journal of Career Development, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894845320912526
Clark, T. R. (2020). The 4 stages of psychological safety: Defining the path to inclusion and innovation. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Edmondson, A. C. (2018). The fearless organization: Creating psychological safety in the workplace for learning, innovation, and growth. John Wiley & Sons.
Edmondson, A., & Mogelof, J. P. (2005). Explaining psychological safety in innovation teams. In L. Thompson & H. Choi (Eds.), Creativity and innovation in organizational teams (pp. 109–136). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Edmondson, A. (1999). Psychological safety and learning behavior in work teams. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(2), 350-383. https://doi.org/10.2307/2666999
Frazier, M. L., Fainshmidt, S., Klinger, R. L., Pezeshkan, A., & Vracheva, V. (2017). Psychological safety: A meta‐analytic review and extension. Personnel Psychology, 70(1), 113-165. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12183
Gong, Z., Yang, J., Gilal, F. G., Van Swol, L. M., & Yin, K. (2020). Repairing police psychological safety: The role of career adaptability, feedback environment, and goal-self concordance based on the conservation of resources theory. Sage open, 10(2), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244020919510
Halaychik, C. (2016). Lessons in library leadership: A primer for library managers and unit leaders. Chandos Publishing.
Hardy III, J. H., Ness, A. M., & Mecca, J. (2017). Outside the box: Epistemic curiosity as a predictor of creative problem solving and creative performance. Personality and Individual Differences, 104, 230-237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.08.004
Heslin, P. A., & Klehe, U. C. (2006). Self-efficacy. In S. G. Rogelberg (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Industrial/Organizational Psychology, 2, 705-708. https://www.researchgate.net/ publication/228210952_Self-efficacy
Hong, J., Ye, J., & Fan, J. (2019). STEM in fashion design: The roles of creative self-efficacy and epistemic curiosity in creative performance. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 15(9), em1742. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/108455
Horstmeyer, A. (2020). The generative role of curiosity in soft skills development for contemporary VUCA environments. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 33(5), 737-751. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOCM-08-2019-0250
Huang, L., Krasikova, D. V., & Liu, D. (2016). I can do it, so can you: The role of leader creative self-efficacy in facilitating follower creativity. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 132, 49–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2015.12.002
Ivcevic, Z., & Nusbaum, E. C. (2017). From having an idea to doing something with it: Self-regulation for creativity. In M. Karwowski & J. C. Kaufman (Eds.). The creative self (pp. 343-365). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809790-8.00020-0
Karwowski, M. (2012). Did curiosity kill the cat? Relationship between trait curiosity, creative self-efficacy and creative personal identity. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 8(4), 547-558. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v8i4.513
Kashdan, T. B., & Roberts, J. E. (2004). Trait and state curiosity in the genesis of intimacy: Differentiation from related constructs. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 23(6), 792-816. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.23.6.792.54800
Kashdan, T. B., Disabato, D. J., Goodman, F. R., & McKnight, P. E. (2020). The five-dimensional curiosity scale revised (5DCR): Briefer subscales while separating overt and covert social curiosity. Personality and Individual Differences, 157, 109836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.109836
Kessel, M., Kratzer, J., & Schultz, C. (2012). Psychological safety, knowledge sharing, and creative performance in healthcare teams. Creativity and Innovation Management, 21(2), 147-157. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8691.2012.00635.x
Kidd, C., & Hayden, B. Y. (2015). The psychology and neuroscience of curiosity. Neuron, 88(3), 449–460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2015.09.010
Kim, K. H. (2019). Demystifying creativity: What creativity isn’t and is?. Roeper Review, 41(2), 119-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/02783193.2019.1585397
Kim, S., Lee, H., & Connerton, T. P. (2020). How psychological safety affects team performance: Mediating role of efficacy and learning behavior. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1581. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01581
Kline, R. B. (2011). Principles and practice of structural equation modeling (3rd ed.). Guilford.
Kong, M., Xu, H., Zhou, A., & Yuan, Y. (2019). Implicit followership theory to employee creativity: The roles of leader–member exchange, self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation. Journal of Management & Organization, 25(1), 81-95. https://doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2017.18
Lee, K. H., Hyun, S. S., Park, H., & Kim, K. (2020). The antecedents and consequences of psychological safety in airline firms: Focusing on high-quality interpersonal relationships. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(7), 2187. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072187
Lippke, S. (2017). Self-efficacy theory. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences (pp. 4722-4727). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_1167
Martin, L. P. (1998). The cognitive-style inventory. The Pfeiffer Library, 8(2). Retrieved from http://home.snu.edu/~jsmith/library/body/v08.pdf
McCrae, R. R. (1987). Creativity, divergent thinking, and openness to experience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52(6), 1258–1265. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.52.6.1258
Mehta, R., & Dahl, D. W. (2019). Creativity: Past, present, and future. Consumer Psychology Review, 2(1), 30-49. https://doi.org/10.1002/arcp.1044
Newman, A., Donohue, R., & Eva, N. (2017). Psychological safety: A systematic review of the literature. Human Resource Management Review, 27(3), 521-535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2017.01.001
Plomp, J., Tims, M., Khapova, S. N., Jansen, P. G., & Bakker, A. B. (2019). Psychological safety, job crafting, and employability: A comparison between permanent and temporary workers. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 974. https://doi.org/10.3389/ fpsyg.2019.00974
Puente-Díaz, R. (2015). Creative self-efficacy: An exploration of its antecedents, consequences, and applied implications. The Journal of Psychology, 150(2), 175-195. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2015.1051498
Puente‐Diaz, R., & Cavazos‐Arroyo, J. (2018). An exploration of some antecedents and consequences of creative self‐efficacy among college students. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 52(3), 256-266. https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.149
Qiang, R., Han, Q., Guo, Y., Bai, J., & Karwowski, M. (2020). Critical thinking disposition and scientific creativity: The mediating role of creative self‐efficacy. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 54(1), 90-99. https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.347
Royston, R., & Reiter‐Palmon, R. (2017). Creative self‐efficacy as mediator between creative mindsets and creative problem‐solving. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 53(4), 472-481. https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.226
Salancik, G. R., & Pfeffer, J. (1978). Social information-processing approach to job attitudes and task design. Administrative Science Quarterly, 23, 224-253. https://doi.org/10.2307/2392563
Savickas, M. L. (1997). Career adaptability: An integrative construct for life-span, life-space theory. The Career Development Quarterly, 45, 247-259. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-0045.1997.tb00469.x
Silvia, P. J. (2008). Appraisal components and emotion traits: Examining the appraisal basis of trait curiosity. Cognition and Emotion, 22(1), 94-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699930701298481
Slåtten, T. (2014). Determinants and effects of employee’s creative self-efficacy on innovative activities. International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences, 6(4), 326-347. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJQSS-03-2013-0013
Tett, R. P., & Burnett, D. D. (2003). A personality trait-based interactionist model of job performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88, 500–517. https://doi.org/ 10.1037/0021-9010.88.3.500
Tett, R. P., & Guterman, A. H. (2000). Situation trait relevance, trait, expression, and cross-situational consistency: Testing a principle of trait activation. Journal of Research in Personality, 34, 397–423. https://doi.org/10.1006/jrpe.2000.2292
Tett, R. P., Simonet, D. V., Walser, B., & Brown, C. (2013). Trait activation theory: Applications, developments, and implications for person-workplace fit. Handbook of personality at work, 71-100. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281390264_Trait_activation_theory_Applications_developments_and_implications_for_person-workplace_fit/stats
Tierney, P., & Farmer, S. M. (2011). Creative self-efficacy development and creative performance over time. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96(2), 277. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020952
Treffinger, D. J. (1995). Creative problem solving: Overview and educational implications. Education Psychological Review, 7, 301–312. https://doi.org/ 10.1007/BF02213375
Zhou, J., & George, J. M. (2001). When job dissatisfaction leads to creativity: Encouraging the expression of voice. Academy of Management Journal, 44, 682-696. https://doi.org/10.5465/3069410