Predictors of Creative Achievement: Assessing the Impact of Entrepreneurial Potential, Perfectionism, and Employee Engagement

Creativity is a key ingredient of organizational effectiveness, business innovation, and entrepreneurship. Yet there remain substantial gaps in the literature in terms of understanding the antecedents of creative achievement. This study investigated the effect of perfectionism, employee engagement,...

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Published in:Creativity research journal 2015-04, Vol.27 (2), p.198-205
Main Authors: Ahmetoglu, Gorkan, Harding, Xanthe, Akhtar, Reece, Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Correlation
Creative Thinking
Creativity
Employee involvement
Employees
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Individual Differences
Innovations
Job Performance
Learner Engagement
Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale
Personality
Personality Traits
Quantitative psychology
Structural Equation Models
Studies
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Summary:Creativity is a key ingredient of organizational effectiveness, business innovation, and entrepreneurship. Yet there remain substantial gaps in the literature in terms of understanding the antecedents of creative achievement. This study investigated the effect of perfectionism, employee engagement, and entrepreneurial potential as predictors of creative achievement. As predicted, Structural Equation Modelling demonstrated that entrepreneurial potential was significantly and positively related to all creative achievement outcomes. The hypothesised negative relationship between perfectionism and creative achievement was not supported. Furthermore, no significant associations were found between employee engagement and creative achievement. Implications are discussed in terms of the importance of entrepreneurial potential as a determinant of creative achievements.
ISSN:1040-0419
1532-6934
DOI:10.1080/10400419.2015.1030293