A study on the relationship among time pressure, job involvement, routinisation, creativity and turnover intentions. (11th February 2010)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lin, Ming-Ji James; Chen, Chih-Cheng; Chen, Chih-Jou; Lai, Fu-Shan
• Is Part Of: International journal of management and enterprise development. Volume 8:Number 2(2010)
• Page Start: 184
• Page End: 197
• Publication Date: 2010-02-11
• Subjects: time pressures -- job involvement -- routinisation -- newspaper industry -- television industry -- broadcasting -- mass media -- Taiwan -- negative associations -- negativity -- routines -- positive predictors -- staff turnover -- employee creativity -- workforce -- human resource management -- HRM -- enterprise development; Small business -- Management -- Periodicals; Entrepreneurship -- Periodicals; 658.02205
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1468-4330

Abstract

Researchers have claimed that routinisation hinders creativity. However, empirical evidence for this assumption is sparse. In this study, we examined a series of research hypotheses that specifies the relationships among time pressure, job involvement, routinisation, creativity and turnover intentions. A research was conducted with 315 employees of the newspaper and television industries in Taiwan. Our results clearly reveal that routinisation is negatively associated with creativity. Time pressure is a strong predictor for routinisation and creativity. Job involvement emerged as a positive predictor for routinisation. Routinisation and creativity had an adverse relationship with turnover intentions. The findings are interpreted with discussions of the implications.