The Perceived Motivational Climate and Employee Creativity

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Creativity has been considered a key component of organizational performance. The aim of this research is to develop an integrative understanding of the factors supporting or inhibiting individual’s creative behavior. Drawing on social cognitive theory and achievement goal theory, this research hypothesized and tested a mediating effect of goal orientation and knowledge sharing intention in the relationship between perceived motivational climate and employee creativity in the Mongolian public sector context.
The research was administered on 649 employees nested in 30 teams from eleven public schools in Mongolia. The data was analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling with IBM SPSS, Amos 18.0, and Bootstrapping and Sobel tests were conducted to identify the mediating effects. Results revealed that (1) goal orientations (learning/performance) and (2) explicit knowledge sharing intention partially mediated the relationship between perceived motivational climate (mastery/performance) and employee creativity. Additionally, the results found that explicit knowledge sharing intention partially mediated the relationship between goal orientations and employee creativity. However, the results showed no mediating effect of implicit knowledge sharing intention in the relationship between perceived motivational climate and employee creativity; and in the relationship between goal orientations and employee creativity.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Abstract
• I. Introduction
• II. Theoretical background
• III. Conceptual Framework
• IV. Research Methodology
• References