“…Employee creativity refers to the generation of novel and useful ideas (Amabile, 1983). With the ongoing business competition and uncertain global economic environment, innovation has been widely used to enhance service delivery (Biljohn and Lues, 2019), and employee creativity has been widely recognized to be essential for organizational innovation, sustainability, and long-term performance (George and Zhou, 2001;Antwi et al, 2019; Baradarani and Kilic, 2018;Hermida et al, 2019). Accordingly, researchers have focused on identifying the antecedents that affect employee creativity, such as abusive supervision (Aryee et al, 2007), work autonomy (Zhang et al, 2017), and work stressors (Noefer et al, 2009).…”