Predicting overall Staffs’ Creativity and Innovative Work Behavior in Banking

Tri, Ho Thanh; Nga, Vo Thi; Sipko, Juraj

doi:10.2478/mmcks-2019-0013

Abstract

This study focuses on the impact of empowering leadership and challenges work environment on both sale employee’s creativity and innovative work behavior in the Vietnamese banking industry. An empirical test, a structural equation model comprising a sample of 319 sale employees in 15 banks, indicates a strong relationship between sales staff creativity and innovative work behavior. Moreover, the findings indicate that both an empowering leadership and a challenging work environment can trigger sale employees’ creativity. Finally, innovative work behavior has a positive impact on innovative output. In general, this study contributes with some suggestions for bank managers to identify appropriate methods in order to stimulate the creativity and innovative work behavior of employees with the objective of achieving strong and sustainable business performance.

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Predicting overall Staffs’ Creativity and Innovative Work Behavior in Banking

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