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Onboarding Effect on Employee Creativity: The Moderating Role of Psychological Empowerment

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  • Kalaa Chenji

    (ICFAI Business School, IFHE Donthanapally, Shankarapalli Road, Hyderabad 501203 Telangana, India)

  • Sode Raghavendra

    (ICFAI Business School, IFHE Donthanapally, Shankarapalli Road, Hyderabad 501203 Telangana, India)

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to examine the influence of onboarding on employee creativity and test if psychological empowerment moderates the relationship between onboarding and perceived employee creativity of knowledge workers. Data required for the survey was collected from 550 knowledge workers of three firms in service sector in India. The model was analysed using ANOVA, Chi-square test and regression analysis and was used to establish the conditional indirect effects of the moderator. Descriptive analysis was used to calculate mean, standard deviation and correlation coefficient. The results of the study supported the impact of onboarding levels on employee creativity. This study proved higher level of creativity for employees who experienced four levels of onboarding. The results indicated onboarding to strongly influence employee creativity. Onboarding also proved to moderate the effect of psychological empowerment on employee creativity. The crucial theoretical implication is to study the effect of onboarding on new employee perception, production and productivity. The study aims to provide insights to improve new employee creativity on successful onboarding and role of psychological empowerment on it. Much scope of future research on onboarding exists as research in this direction is on surge in the recent days.

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  • Kalaa Chenji & Sode Raghavendra, 2021. "Onboarding Effect on Employee Creativity: The Moderating Role of Psychological Empowerment," Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 20(04), pages 1-20, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jikmxx:v:20:y:2021:i:04:n:s0219649221500465
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219649221500465
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    1. Dasuni Nirmani Pandithasekara & Erabaddage Ayoma Gayathri Sumanasiri & Áron Perényi, 2023. "Exploring the Impact of Sustainability Control Systems on Employees’ Green Creativity: The Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment and Sustainability Learning Capabilities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(6), pages 1-20, March.

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