Creativity in the South Korean Workplace: Procedural Justice, Abusive Supervision, and Competence

Woo-Sung Choi, Seung-Wan Kang and Suk Bong Choi
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Woo-Sung Choi: Seoul School of Integrated Sciences & Technologies, 46 Ewhayeodae 2-gil, Fintower, Sinchon-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03767, Korea
Seung-Wan Kang: College of Business, Gachon University, 1342 Seongnamdaero, Sujeong-gu, Seongnam 13120, Korea
Suk Bong Choi: College of Global Business, Korea University, 2511 Sejong-ro, Sejong City 30019, Korea

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: Innovation is now a feature of daily life. In a rapidly changing market environment and amid fierce competition, organizations pursue survival and growth through innovation, and the key driver of innovation is the creativity of employees. Because the value of creativity has been emphasized, many organizations are looking for effective ways to encourage employees to be creative at work. From a resource perspective, creativity at work can be viewed as a high-intensity job demand, and organizations should encourage it by providing and managing employee resources. This study is an attempt to empirically investigate how competence and abusive supervision affect the relationship between procedural justice and creativity from the conservation of resources perspective. Findings from two-wave time-lagged survey data from 377 South Korean employees indicate that procedural justice increases creativity through the mediation of competence. Furthermore, abusive supervision has a negative moderating effect on the relationship between procedural justice and competence. The findings show that competence moderates the relationship between procedural justice and creativity and that the lower the level of abusive supervision, the greater the effect of procedural justice on competence and creativity.

Keywords: creativity; procedural justice; abusive supervision; competence; conservation of resource theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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