What Do We Still Need to Know about Employee Creativity: A fsQCA Approach

Yao Song, Shikui Gao, Yang Zhao and Sanjaya Singh Gaur
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Yao Song: School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Xueyuan Road 29, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China
Shikui Gao: School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Xueyuan Road 29, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China
Yang Zhao: Sunway University Business School, Sunway University, No. 5, Jalan University, Bandar Sunway, 47500 Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
Sanjaya Singh Gaur: NYU School of Professional Studies, The New York University, 11W 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036, USA

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 3, 1-19

Abstract: This study explored employees behavior flexibility, status, and independence value as vital factors of employee creativity. Based on the theory of interaction creativity, we theorize the core factors, synergistic effects, and substitution effects of employee creativity. This paper adopted a qualitative approach using a self-administrated survey to collect data. Data were collected from 380 Chinese employees via an online and offline survey. The results contribute to creativity literature and expand the study on employee’s creativity performance. Moreover, it opens the black box of employee creativity from a new insight by exploring the effects of human resource flexibility and work values. The paper suggests that to obtain innovation and organizational sustainability, companies should not only advocate human resource flexibility management but also combine the work values of employees.

Keywords: employee creativity performance; human resource flexibility; work values (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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