Impact of Workaholics on Creativity: the mediating role of Negative Mood and moderating role of Supervisor Support

Muhammad Abdullah, Naveeda Katper, Naveed Iqbal Chaudhry and Muhammad Nawaz Tunio ()
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Muhammad Abdullah: Department of Business Administration, University of the Punjab, Gujranwala
Naveeda Katper: Institute of Business Administration, Faculty of Commerce and BusinessAdministration, University of Sindh, Allama I.I. Qazi Campus Jamshoro
Naveed Iqbal Chaudhry: Department of Business Administration, University of the Punjab, Gujranwala
Muhammad Nawaz Tunio: AlpenAdria University, Klagenfurt, Austria

Sukkur IBA Journal of Management and Business, 2020, vol. 7, issue 2, 73-92

Abstract: Employees are an asset to their organization. The organizations needto provide the best management and supervisory support to their employees to ensure quality work. The current study is based on the workaholic nature of employees and their creative skills. It focuseson the employees of Advertising Agencies. Such organizations need personnel with creative skills and they should develop an environment for their employees to work in a better way and come up with extraordinary results. Thisstudy focusesonthe impact of workaholics on the creativity ofemployees the mediating role of negative mood between workaholics and creativity and the moderating role of supervisor support between the workaholics and negative mood. The data has been collected from different advertising agencies of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, through questionnaires with N=350.Results showthat workaholics are creative andit has a positive significant relationship with each other. Negativemood plays a mediating role between these two but supervisor support doesn’t moderate between workaholics and negative mood.This study helps organizations to increase employee creativity by elevating a negative mood by incorporating several techniques in the context of Pakistani advertising agencies.

Keywords: Employee creativity; employee negative mood; supervisor support; workaholics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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