Leveraging employee creativity through playfulness climate: The mediating role of working smart
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Ling Li
Management School, South-Central University for Nationalities
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Houyong Tao
Economics and Management School, Wuhan University
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- Keywords:
- playfulness climate, employee creativity, working smart, playfulness at work, workplace culture
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The primary aim of the study was to examine the role of playfulness climate in shaping employee creativity by analyzing working smart as a multilevel mediator. Data were gathered from 237 subordinates and their 44 immediate supervisors employed by 60 companies in China. Results showed that playfulness climate had a strong positive association with employee creativity. In addition, working smart played a mediating role in the relationship between playfulness climate and employee creativity. In the context of organizations in the Chinese culture, our results provide insights for managers to create a climate of playfulness as an emerging approach that affects employee creativity. The theoretical and practical implications and limitations of the study are discussed.
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- 2023-04-05
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- Vol. 51 No. 4 (2023)
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