Alive and creating: the mediating role of vitality and aliveness in the relationship between psychological safety and creative work involvement
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Individual involvement in creative work is of crucial importance for organizations in a knowledge‐based economy. This study examined how psychological safety induces feelings of vitality and how feelings of vitality impact one's involvement in creative work. We examined these relationships among 128 part‐time graduate students who held managerial and non‐managerial position in their work organizations. The results suggest that employees' sense of psychological safety is significantly associated with feelings of vitality (both collected at time 1), which, in turn, result in involvement in creative work (collected at time 2). We discuss the implications of these findings for both theory and practice. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Feeling vital gives people more energy to engage in creative work such as opportunity recognition.
“When experiencing a sense of vitality, individuals feel like they have more energy to engage in creative work (Kark and Carmeli, 2009), like opportunity recognition.”
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- Authors
- Kark, R., & Carmeli, A.
- Affiliations
- Bar-Ilan University (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Kark, Ronit
- Venue
- Journal of Organizational Behavior
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2008-11-11
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 785-804
- ISSN
- 0894-3796 (ISSN-L)
- 1099-1379
- OpenAlex
- W1993618129
- Cited by
- 589
- References
- 12
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- FWCI
- 16.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Organizational Behavior (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- University of Haifa
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Team Dynamics and Performance
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Keywords
- psychological safety, vitality, aliveness, mediating effect, employee creativity, part-time workers, graduate students, knowledge economy
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