Abstract
THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF WORK AND NONWORK CREATIVITY TO EMPLOYEES CREATIVE PERFORMANCE

Farlianto; Wibowo, Arif
School of Management
Yogyakarta State University

We examined relations between creative performance and the extent to which employees received support for creativity from both work (supervisors/coworkers) and nonwork (family and friends) sources. We also examined whether (1) employees’ creative role identity mediated the support-creativity relations and (2) employees’ mood states and champion behavior moderated these relations. Results demonstrated that support for creativity from work and nonwork made independent contributions to employees’ creative performance.  Our study was the first to show (1) that support from an adult individual’s family members and friends contributed to his or her creativity at work and (2) that this support made a contribution to creativity over and above that made a contribution to creativity over and above that made by support from creativity over and above that made by support from people inside the work place who were not family or friends.  Our results showed that positive mood made a positive, significant contribution to creativity while negative mood did not.  Our study also showed that employee’s creative personality (their CPS rating) moderated the relation between nonwork support and creativity but no the relation involving work support.  We also found that the married employees in our study exhibited higher creativity, despite receiving less nonwork support than their unmarried counterparts.  This result suggests that marriage may provide unique experiences or may influence psychological states conducive to creativity.  

Key words: support for creativity, creativity role identity, mood state, creative personality