Linking employees’ motivation to performance and creativity: the mediating role of well-being

Saca, Sofia

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Saca, Sofia

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Sabino, Ana

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Throughout this study, four variables were explored in order to understand the mediating role of employee well-being in the relationship between employee motivation and performance as well as employee motivation and their creativity in the organization. Motivation represents the only independent variable of this study and was assessed according to the Self Determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000). Employee Performance in the workplace is one of the two dependent constructs of the current study and it was assessed through the performance scale of Williams and Anderson (2001). The other dependent variable is employee Creativity which was measured through the scale created by Zhou and George (2001). Moreover, employee Well-being in the workplace was defined as Engagement and Burnout which represent the positive and negative aspect of the construct (Maslach, Schaufeli, & Leiter, 2001; Schaufeli, Bakker, & Salanova, 2006). No studies or published papers were identified which explore the relationship between all four of the constructs in an organizational perspective. Therefore, the main goal of this study was to understand and provide evidence of the mediating role of employee well-being as well as explore the direct relationship between employee motivation and performance and creativity in the workplace. The study is characterized by its quantitative research nature and the analyzed sample consisted of 147 employed participants whose data was collected through a semi-structured questionnaire shared online. The main results indicate that there is a significative and positive relationship between employee Motivation and Engagement, thus, Engagement totally mediates the relationship between Motivation and Creativity. No direct significative relationship was evidenced between Motivation and Performance or Creativity. Lastly, practical and theoretical results implications were discussed.