title: The influence of creative process engagement on employee creative performance and overall job performance: a curvilinear assessment.
abstract: Integrating theories addressing attention and activation with creativity literature, we found an inverted U-shaped relationship between creative process engagement and overall job performance among professionals in complex jobs in an information technology firm. Work experience moderated the curvilinear relationship, with low-experience employees generally exhibiting higher levels of overall job performance at low to moderate levels of creative process engagement and high-experience employees demonstrating higher overall performance at moderate to high levels of creative process engagement. Creative performance partially mediated the relationship between creative process engagement and job performance. These relationships were tested within a moderated mediation framework.
authors: Kogod School of Business, American University.
authors: Xiaomeng
authors: X
authors: Zhang
authors: Kathryn M
authors: KM
authors: Bartol
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D003405:Creativity; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*