The Motivation of Employee Creativity:Employee Creative Self-efficacy

Creative self-efficacy,which is defined as the belief one has the ability to produce creative outcomes,plays an important role in the employee creative process.Creative self-efficacy explains as a person's belief that he or she can successfully perform in a particular setting,derived from Bandura's more general concept of self-efficacy.The main factors impact on employee creative self-efficacy is summarized:leadership support,the complexity of the work,the years of employee education,work experience and work self-efficacy.The relationship between creative self-efficacy and employee innovation is analysised,positive correlation between them is tested and verified by empirical studies.Finally,Some points about future trends on the research about creative self-efficacy are put forward,which is exploring more measurement tools,doing more empirical research on particular settings and trying to find more related factors.