도전적 스트레스와 방해적 스트레스가 창의적 성과에 미치는 영향- 성실성과 직무 자율성의 조절효과 -

The purpose of this study was to empirically analyze how challenging stress and hindrance stress affect creative performance of Korean employees that is continuously emphasized as an essential factor for improving organizational innovation and maintaining sustainable competitive advantage. In addition, we examined the moderating effects of conscientiousness and job autonomy in the relationship. We assumed that conscientiousness and job autonomy are expected to serve as important conditions for maximizing the effects of challenge stress and hinderance stress on creative performance. For the empirical analysis. the survey data was collected from 260 Korean employees working in manufacturing and service companies. We have empirically tested the proposed hypotheses based on hierarchical regression analysis. As a result, we found that both challenging and hindrance stress showed a positive relationship with creative performance. We also found that the moderating effect of both conscientiousness and job autonomy was significant only in the relationship between challenging stress and creative performance. However, the moderating effects of them was not significant in the relationship between hinderance stress and creative performance. Based on the results of this study, theoretical and practical implications were suggested for the organizations who want to improve their employees' creative performance by properly managing job-related stress of employees. We also provided the future research directions with the limitations of the study.