Name: Neetu Chaudhary & Shavina Goyal
Country: India

Year: 2017
Volume: Volume-7, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 47-56

ABSTRACT
Employee creativity has emerged as a critical determinant of organizational adaptability and longterm competitiveness in contemporary work environments characterized by rapid technological change and increasing uncertainty (Anderson et al., 2014; Shalley et al., 2004). The present study examines the relationship between perceived organizational support and employee creativity by investigating psychological wellbeing as a mediating mechanism and job autonomy as a moderating condition. Drawing upon organizational support theory (Eisenberger et al., 1986), broaden-and-build theory (Fredrickson, 2001), and self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2000), the study proposes that perceived organizational support enhances psychological wellbeing, which subsequently promotes employee creativity. Job autonomy strengthens this relationship by providing employees with discretion and flexibility necessary to translate creative ideas into work outcomes (Hackman & Oldham, 1976). Data were co