scholarly journals Towards Employee Creativity in the Healthcare Sector: Investigating the Role of Polychronicity, Job Engagement and Functional Flexibility

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 837
Author(s):  
Junaid Waheed ◽  
Wen Jun ◽  
Zahid Yousaf ◽  
Magdalena Radulescu ◽  
Hadi Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Job Engagement ◽  
Employee Creativity ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Job Commitment ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Functional Flexibility ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Regression Techniques

Given the importance of individual level creativity, this paper investigates the influence of employee polychronicity on employee creativity among nurses in the healthcare sector. The current research also tests how job engagement acts as a mediator between employees’ polychronicity and creativity. Finally, thepaper analyzes the role of functional flexibility as a moderator that enhances the influence of polychronicity on employee creativity. The current paper presents empirical research, and cross-sectional data were gathered from 457 nurses (Subordinate Staff) and 127 doctors (Supervisors) working in 37DHQ (District Head Quarters) hospitals in Pakistan. Descriptive statistics, correlation, and multiple-regression techniques were applied for analyzing the collected data. The findings proved that the nurses’ polychronic attitude increases their creativity. Findings revealed that job commitment plays a mediating role between polychronicity and employee creativity. The findings proved that functional flexibility enhances the link between polychronicity and creativity. This research has contributed to both theory and managerial practice about the interplay of polychronicity, creativity, job engagement, and functional flexibility among nurses. The management in practice should focus on employee attitude, i.e., polychronicity, for improving their creativeness.

scholarly journals Contributions to Sustainability in SMEs: Human Resources, Sustainable Product Innovation Performance and the Mediating Role of Employee Creativity

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2008
Author(s):  
Lucía Muñoz-Pascual ◽  
Jesús Galende ◽  
Carla Curado
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Employee Creativity ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Sustainable Product

The analysis of human resources and sustainable innovation through organizational variables is useful, albeit limited, for predicting complex interactions for sustainability development in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper seeks to overcome this limitation, proposing three models with variables at two levels, namely, for the development of creativity (individual level) and sustainable product innovation performance (organizational level) and sustainability development. Theoretical models are tested using the Structural Equations Model. It is posited that knowledge, motivation, and relationships (individual level) may be predictors of creativity. In addition, creativity is analyzed as a mediator between human resources and sustainable product innovation performance. In this way, it is easier for SMEs to detect on which aspects of HR they should place greater emphasis for sustainable product innovation performance (PIP), with the purpose of reducing the ones associated with the Covid-19 crisis and obtaining a sustainable world. Information was obtained through an online questionnaire involving a sample of 245 certified innovative Spanish SMEs. The results support major findings: (a) knowledge, (b) motivation, and (c) relationships have a positive impact on creativity; (d) the three models hold that creativity fully mediates human resources and sustainable product innovation performance. The paper contributes to the literature on the human resources and sustainable product innovation performance by adopting a multidisciplinary approach, as well as by analyzing variables on two levels, measuring the most internal aspects of employees (wishes, emotions, ideas, or feelings), and explaining the mediating role of employee creativity.

scholarly journals Relationship of Abusive Supervision and Creativity of Academic Staff in Public Sector Universities: Mediating role of Knowledge Sharing

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Sana Asghar ◽  
Sobia Sultana
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Abusive Supervision ◽  
Employee Creativity ◽  
Statistical Tool ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship

The importance of knowledge management enhances the competitive advantage of an organization in today's knowledge-based economy is agreed upon. In this era of globalized economy, knowledge is the main driver for growth. Knowledge promotes creativity is proved in the extant literature which is effected by abusive supervision. In this present study, we examine the process through which abusive supervision affects the creativity of employees. In particular, with the likelihood that abusive supervision is related to creativity of the employees and mediated by knowledge sharing behavior. Thus, the aim of present study is to investigate the effect of abusive supervision on the creativity of academic staff in the public sector universities with the mediating role of knowledge sharing. In order to analyze the relationship among the variables involved in the study, utilized the quantitative research methodology, deductive approach and cross-sectional time horizon .The questionnaire survey technique was adopted to collect the data. A five-point Likert scales with significant measures was used. The targeted population of the present study was the academic staff of three universities (Lahore College for Women University, The University of the Punjab, and Government College University, Lahore). Total 330 employees were selected as a sample through utilizing the proportionate stratified random sampling technique and among them 298 was fit for the analysis. The statistical tool, SPSS and AMOS was utilized to analyze the collected data to obtain the results. The results of the study show that abusive supervision has a negative effect on employee creativity and knowledge sharing of employees whereas; knowledge sharing has significant positive effect on employee creativity. Though, knowledge sharing is partially mediating the relationship between abusive supervision and knowledge sharing.

Lower education and living in countries with lower wealth are associated with higher disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis: results from the multinational COMORA study

2015 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 540-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Polina Putrik ◽  
Sofia Ramiro ◽  
Andras P Keszei ◽  
Ihsane Hmamouchi ◽  
Maxime Dougados ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rheumatoid Arthritis ◽  
Disease Activity ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Country Level ◽  
The Relationship

ObjectivesTo investigate the relationship of socioeconomic status (SES) on an individual and country level with disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and explore the mediating role of uptake of costly biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) in this relationship.MethodsData from a cross-sectional multinational study (COMOrbidities in RA) were used. Contribution of individual socioeconomic factors and country of residence to disease activity score with 28-joint assessment (DAS28) was explored in regression models, adjusting for relevant clinical confounders. Next, country of residence was replaced by gross domestic product (GDP) (low vs high) to investigate the contribution of SES by comparing R2 (model fit). The mediating role of uptake of bDMARDs in the relationship between education or GDP and DAS28 was explored by testing indirect effects.ResultsIn total, 3920 patients with RA were included (mean age 56 (SD 13) years, 82% women, mean DAS28 3.7 (1.6)). After adjustment, women (vs men) and low-educated (vs university) patients had 0.35 higher DAS28. Adjusted country differences in DAS28, compared with the Netherlands (lowest DAS28), varied from +0.2 (France) to +2.4 (Egypt). Patients from low GDP countries had 0.98 higher DAS28. No interactions between individual-level and country-level variables were observed. A small mediation effect of uptake of bDMARDs in the relationship between education and DAS28 (7.7%) and between GDP and DAS28 (6.7%) was observed.ConclusionsFemale gender and lower individual or country SES were independently associated with DAS28, but did not reinforce each other. The association between lower individual SES (education) or lower country welfare (GDP) with higher DAS28 was partially mediated by uptake of bDMARDs.

scholarly journals MEDIATING ROLE OF EMPLOYEES JOB ENGAGEMENT FOR RELATION OF EMOTIONAL LABOR WITH LIFE SATISFACTION

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (02) ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
Nadeem Akhter ◽  
Umar Kayani Safdar ◽  
Muhammad Tahir
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Job Engagement ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Public Sector Banks ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Public Banks

Considering the role of life satisfaction of an employee’s as vital factor for employees' performance which directly affects the firms' success, this study explores the role of emotional labor as an antecedent of life satisfaction via mediating role of the job engagement of bank officers working in private and public banks of Pakistan. The sample of 314 employees of officer rank 314 employees of banking sector are selected randomly for data collection. Results of cross-sectional data of 314 employees working in both private and public sector banks of Pakistan predict that employees having higher emotional labor have lesser job engagements, reducing overall life satisfaction of an employee. For genializing the result this kind of research may include the broad sample i.e., Islamabad, Bahawalpur, Faisalabad, Multan, and Karachi. In future this type of research will also be conducted on the telecom, education, textile sector and education sector.

Workplace fun and employee creativity: The mediating role of psychological safety

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (11) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Guodong Yang
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Psychological Safety ◽  
Employee Creativity ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Workplace Fun ◽  
Indirect Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

I proposed a model to explain how workplace fun is effective in facilitating employee creativity, with a focus on the mediating role of psychological safety in this relationship. Participants comprised 269 employees of hotels in China. Results show that workplace fun had a direct, significantly positive effect on employee creativity, as well as an indirect relationship through the mediator of psychological safety. These findings show that a fun work environment helps to enhance employee creativity. Thus, it is beneficial for managers of organizations to create a fun work environment, and they should also consider employees' sense of psychological safety when allowing employees to have fun at work.

Creativity in Sociocultural Systems

2019 ◽  
pp. 269-284
Author(s):  
Dean Keith Simonton
Keyword(s):  
Macro Level ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Sociocultural Systems

Although psychologists typically see creativity as an individual-level event, sociologists and cultural anthropologists are more likely to view it as a sociocultural phenomenon. This phenomenon takes place at the level of relatively large and enduring collectives, such as cultures, nations, and even whole civilizations. This chapter reviews the extensive research on such macro-level creativity. The review begins with a historical overview before turning to the cross-sectional research on the creative Ortgeist, a subject that encompasses the factors that influence the relative creativity of both preliterate cultures and entire modern nations. From there the chapter turns to role of the Zeitgeist in affecting the creativity of civilizations across time—the rise and fall of creative activity. This research examines both quantitative and qualitative causes that operate both short- and long-term.

scholarly journals 306 - Loneliness and mortality in older adults and the role of depression

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (S1) ◽  
pp. 64-64
Author(s):  
T.J. Holwerda ◽  
D. Rhebergen ◽  
H.C. Comijs ◽  
J.J.M. Dekker ◽  
M.L. Stek
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Mortality Risk ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Clinical Perspective ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Dexamethasone Suppression

Background:The prevalence of loneliness increases with age. The presence of loneliness in older adults has been found to be associated with health problems such as depression, decreased cognitive functioning, increases in systolic blood pressure and increased mortality. The underlying mechanisms of the higher mortality risk are largely unknown.Methods:Meta-analysis to investigate the present evidence for the associations between loneliness and mortality. Cross-sectional studies investigating the associations between loneliness and cardiovascular disease and between loneliness and cortisol in 378 depressed and 132 non-depressed older adults.Results:Loneliness appears to be associated with increased mortality, although when only studies are included that consider depression as a covariate, the association is not significant. Therefore it seems likely that depression plays a mediating role in the higher mortality risk.We did not find a significant association between loneliness and cardiovascular disease. In contrast, loneliness was significantly associated with lower cortisol output and decreased dexamethasone suppression.Discussion:The results and their implications for prevention and treatment will be discussed from a clinical perspective as well as a general health perspective. Is loneliness as potentially dangerous as depression?

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