Covid-19 Pandemic and Creative Work behavior: The Role of Employees' Mindset and Knowledge Sharing
Résumé
In this time of the Covid-19 pandemic, organizations are facing many challenges (Iivari et al., 2020). Creativity can help organizations to generate new solutions and ideas to respond to such pandemics (Dirani et al., 2020; Lee & Trimi, 2020). One important option for them to be creative is to encourage the creative work behavior of their workforce (Alikaj et al., 2020). The creativity of employees is therefore crucial as a fundamental strategy to address Covid-19 consequences. Several scholars have attempted to determine the individual factors that are associated with employees' creative behavior (Alikaj et al., 2020; Zhang & Bartol, 2010). However, little is known about how employees' creative work behavior may be affected by their mindset, be it growth or fixed (Han & Stieha, 2020). Based on the implicit person theory (Dweck & Leggett, 1988) and social cognitive theory (Bandura, 1986), we attempt to build a theoretical framework that explains how an employee's creative work behavior is influenced by his/her mindset. Additionally, we explore the mediating roles of knowledge-sharing behavior and the moderating role of knowledge-oriented leadership on this relationship (Donate & de Pablo, 2015; Radaelli et al., 2014).