Job Insecurity, Work-related Stress and Employee Creativity: Proactive Personality and Team Climate for Innovation as Moderators

Abstract

Abstract. Nowadays, creativity is vital to enterprises as human capital has become a main competition factor worldwide. Nearly every enterprise wants to have employees with high creativity. Meanwhile, in order to be flexible and quick to adapt to changing environmental needs, organizations frequently downsize which leads to employees' job insecurity. Job insecurity is harmful to employee creativity which has been testified by scholars. Facing this contraction, how to reduce the harmful effect for both employees and enterprises is an urgent question to answer. To this end, the paper introduces proactive personality to employees and team climate for innovation to the enterprises. We developed a cross-level model with moderated mediation in level 1 and a moderator in level 2. Management implication is also discussed.

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“…Likewise, Liu and Shi [43] mention that employee proactivity is change-oriented and self-initiated and that employees never wait for the opportunity to be presented to them by others to become proactive. They keep working on identifying opportunities, act on them, take further action, and persist until the desired change is accomplished [48].…”

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“…The age of knowledge-based economies entail that enterprises strive for both productivity and innovation. As human capital is now an important competition factor, enterprises seek employees with high creativity (Liu and Shi, 2014). These enterprises look for incumbents who actively take part in continuous improvement of their work environment and are eager to look for new opportunities (Li et al , 2016).…”