Rewards and Employee Creativity Among Rural Healthcare Employees: the Mediating Role of Organizational Support for Innovation and the Moderating Impact of Supervisory Support
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-23-2021
Publication Title
International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences
DOI
10.1108/IJQSS-11-2020-0187
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to explore the mediating effect of organizational support for innovation and moderating impact of supervisory support on how rewards shape employee creativity among rural healthcare employees, a group with few resources and considerable expectations.
Design/methodology/approach
Using a regression-based moderated path analysis, the authors tested the hypotheses with healthcare employee survey data from a large Southern rural hospital in the USA.
Findings
The empirical results suggest organizational support for innovation mediates the influence of rewards on employee creativity. In addition, the indirect effect of rewards on employee creativity via organizational support for innovation is moderated by supervisory support, such that the indirect effect is more pronounced at high levels of supervisory support than at low levels of supervisory support.
Originality/value
This study contributes to the organizational support and creativity literature by exploring the indirect relations of rewards on employee creativity through organizational support for innovation, and the moderating role of supervisory support in such relations.
Recommended Citation
Opoku, Samuel T., Bettye Apenteng, Kwabena Boakye.
2021.
"Rewards and Employee Creativity Among Rural Healthcare Employees: the Mediating Role of Organizational Support for Innovation and the Moderating Impact of Supervisory Support."
International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences, 14 (1): 37-53: Emerald Publishing.
doi: 10.1108/IJQSS-11-2020-0187
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/hpmb-facpubs/260
Copyright
Copyright 2021, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Comments
"Georgia Southern University faculty member, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye A. Apenteng, and Kwabena G. Boakye co-authored Rewards and Employee Creativity Among Rural Healthcare Employees: the Mediating Role of Organizational Support for Innovation and the Moderating Impact of Supervisory Support.