Perception of Job Characteristics and Age as Deteminants of Employee Creativity

Abstract

The study investigated the perception of job characteristics and age as determinants of  employee creativity. The study used 175 participants out of which 101 were males and 74 were females, drawn through a systematic random sampling. The age of the participants range from 20-60 years with a mean age of 32.4 and a standard deviation of 8.87.The study utilized job characteristics scale by Hackman and Oldham 1975 and Creativity Inventory  adapted from  Zhou and George 2001. The study adopted a 2×2 factorial design and accordingly 2-way ANOVA was used for the statistical analysis. The first hypothesis that stated that there will be a significant difference between workers who have positive perception of job characteristics and those with negative perception of job characteristics on their creativity to work was confirmed at F(1,171)= 47.582, p=<.05 level of significance. The second hypothesis that stated that there will be a significant difference between workers who are young and old on their creativity to work was confirmed at F(1,171)= 15.631, p=<.05 level of significance. From the result we can conclude that perception of job characteristics and age has an influence on employee creativity. Findings were discussed and recommendations were made accordingly.

Keywords: Creativity, Job Characteristics and Age