Fostering workplace creativity: examining the roles of job design and organizational context

This study investigates the actor–context interaction effects of job characteristics and organizational context on individual creativity in the South Korean context. Specifically, we examined the relationship among three job characteristics (i.e. skill variety, autonomy and feedback), three organizational context factors (i.e. organizational climate, resources and extrinsic rewards), and individual creativity. Our findings indicated that all job characteristics positively affected individual creativity. Only extrinsic rewards had a significant moderating effect on the job characteristics and individual creativity relationship; extrinsic rewards negatively moderated the relationship between skill variety and individual creativity, while it positively affected the relationship between autonomy and individual creativity. Our study extends and contributes to the actor–context interactionist view in creativity scholarship and provides several important implications for creativity research and practice.