종업원의 주말활동과 창의적 직무몰입 : 직무활력 및 회복경험의 매개효과

Most of the existing research on creative task activities in management has focused on the work related environment at the organizational level or individual capabilities, job and personality characteristics at the individual level. In this vein, the focus of organizational behavior study in this area was on how the leader's behavior would lead to creativity or innovative behavior of the members, and solutions were sought from an organizational, task-oriented perspective. However, as we reflect changes in society and lifestyles today, informal and personal activities after work, especially weekend activities are expected to have a significant impact on regular work activities. Therefore, while there should be a lot of interest in important factors that may occur outside the organization or outside of work, these studies have so far been limited. Therefore, this study aims to focus on effect of weekend activities of employees on' their creative work activities and involvement. We developed the analytical model with main hypotheses as below: Hypothesis 1. Weekend activity is positively associated with Involvement in creative work of employees. Hypothesis 2. Intellectual activity than physical activity of weekend activity is more positively associated with Involvement in creative work of employees. Hypothesis 3. Weekend activities is positively associated with feelings of energy. Hypothesis 4. Weekend activities is positively associated with recovery experience. Hypothesis 5. Feelings of energy is positively mediated the relationship between weekend activity and involvement in creative work of employees. Hypothesis 6. Recovery experience is positively mediated the relationship between weekend activity and involvement in creative work of employees. Using 380 survey data from Korean workers, this paper examined the effects of weekend activity of employees on their feeling of energy, job recovery experience and involvement in creative work. Importantly, the findings of the current study have shown that employees' intellectual activity during the weekend more contributed to involvement in creative work than physical activity. This study also found that employees' weekend activity improved both feeling of energy and job recovery experience of employees. In addition, while we found that feeling of energy was positively mediated the relationship between weekend activities of employees and involvement in creative task, job recovery experience was not. This paper implies that informal and non job related activities such as weekend activities contributed to developing important source of individual creative performance. We also suggest that managers should more pay attention to proper fit between the employees’ weekend activity and characteristics of job related behavior and output to promote overall creative and organizational involvement. Future research direction with a limitation of the paper was discussed.