Intermediary Role of Creativity on the Impact of Employee Encouragement on Risk Trends

Year 2020, Volume: 9 Issue: 17, 25 - 35, 30.06.2020

İbrahim Durmuş

Abstract

In today's work environment, incentives, creativity and risk-taking tendencies are very important for employees and organizations. In previous studies, changes in motivation and performance of employees in general are encouraged. In this study, unlike many previous studies, it has been investigated how risk tendencies are affected in the encouragement of employees by workplaces and whether the creativity behaviors of employees are mediated. According to the results of the research, it is observed that the incentive policies of the workplaces have a positive and significant effect on the risk-taking tendencies of the employees and the creativity of the employees plays a full mediating role between these two variables. In addition, it was concluded that the incentive policies of the workplace had positive and significant effects on the creativity of the employees and that the creativity of the employees also had positive and significant effects on the risk-taking tendencies.

Keywords

Work Incentive Policies, Employee Creativity, Employee Risk Tendency

Çalışanların İşlerine Teşvik Ettirilmesinin Risk Eğilimleri Üzerindeki Etkisinde Yaratıcılıklarının Aracı Rolü

Abstract

Günümüz çalışma ortamında teşvik, yaratıcılık ve risk alma eğilimleri çalışanlar ve organizasyonlar için oldukça önemlidir. Daha önce gerçekleştirilen çalışmalarda genel olarak çalışanların iş yerleri tarafından teşvik edilmesinde onların motivasyonları ve performanslarına meydana gelen değişimler araştırılmıştır. Araştırmada ulaşılabilen daha evvelki birçok çalışmadan farklı olarak çalışanların iş yerleri tarafından teşvik edilmelerinde risk eğilimlerinin bundan nasıl etkilendiği ve çalışanların yaratıcılık davranışlarının aracı etkisinin olup olmadığı araştırılmıştır. Araştırma sonuçlarında iş yerlerinin teşvik politikalarının çalışanların risk alma eğilimleri üzerinde pozitif ve anlamlı etkisinin olduğu, çalışanların yaratıcılığının bu iki değişken arasında tam aracılık rolü üstlendiği gözlemlenmiştir. Ayrıca araştırmada iş yerinin teşvik politikalarının çalışanların yaratıcılığı üzerinde pozitif ve anlamlı etkilerinin olduğu ve çalışanların yaratıcılığının 

Keywords

İş Yerinin Teşvik Politikaları, Çalışanların Yaratıcılığı, Çalışanların Risk Eğilimi

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