DocumentCode :
693992
Title :
Intrinsic motivation and creative behavior: Moderating role of active efforts
Author :
Shinohara, S.K. ; Fujimoto, Takafumi ; Tanaka, Hideki S. ; Nakata, Y.
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Technol., Doshisha Univ., Kyoto, Japan
fYear :
2013
fDate :
10-13 Dec. 2013
Firstpage :
39
Lastpage :
42
Abstract :
According to the social-psychological research on creativity, intrinsic motivation for work is one of the significant factors associated with workers´ creative behavior [2]. In addition to be highly motivated to work, having opportunities for active efforts, including self-learning, might have significant impact on creative job performance. Thus, we expect that employees with strong intrinsic motivation for work and opportunities for active efforts are likely to behave creatively at work. Using data from male Research and Development engineers in a Japanese automotive manufacturing group, this study investigates the moderating role of active efforts in the relationship between engineers´ intrinsic motivation and creative behavior. We found that intrinsic motivation for work was positively associated with engineers´ creative behavior. Furthermore, as we expected, the positive effect of intrinsic motivation on creative behavior becomes stronger when engineers have increased opportunities active efforts.
Keywords :
industrial psychology; research and development; Japanese automotive manufacturing; intrinsic motivation; male research and development engineers; social-psychological research; worker creative behavior; Automotive engineering; Biological system modeling; Education; Manufacturing; Manufacturing industries; Mathematical model; Predictive models; active efforts; creativity; engineers; intrinsic motivation;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangkok
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/IEEM.2013.6962370
Filename :
6962370
Link To Document :
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