Exploring Vital Energy at Work; The Role of Employee Agility and Creativity

Bella Carissa, Endang Parahyanti

Abstract


This research is addressing how vitality, in form of proactive vitality management can boost creative performance through employee agility. The existing literature on the relationship between these three variables is still limited. Particularly, while facing an uncertainty, workers need to reach optimum energy for them function well and using their agility as tools for determining the act. The study was conducted a survey using questionnaire among 123 employees in Indonesia. The collected was analyzed using Hayes PROCESS to analyze both direct and mediation relationships between proactive vitality management, employee agility, and creative work performance. The analysis revealed that employee agility can act as mediator between proactive vitality management and creative work performance. This finding also confirms the direct relationship as well. The finding was confirmed a new process to achieve creative performance. This study contributes on enriching existing literature about proactive vitality management. In addition, this study also highlight how individual strategy (bottom-up approach) could be powerful tools for achieving creative performance. Given the results, managers and HR practitioners should not overlooked the benefits of self-regulatory. They can provide program and valuable feedback for employees to enhance their creative performance.


Keywords


Employee Agility; Creative Work Performance; Energy; Proactive Vitality Management.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51849/j-p3k.v6i3.790

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