Impact of employees’ character strengths of wisdom on stress and creative performance

Citation

Avey, J.B. (2012), "Impact of employees’ character strengths of wisdom on stress and creative performance", Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 26 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/dlo.2012.08126faa.005

Impact of employees’ character strengths of wisdom on stress and creative performance

Article Type: Abstracts From: Development and Learning in Organizations, Volume 26, Issue 6

Avey J.B., , Luthans F., , Hannah S.T., , Sweetman D. and Peterson C. Human Resource Management Journal, April 2012, Vol. 22 No. 2, Start page: 165, No. of pages: 17

Both conventional understanding and positive psychology recognize an important link between people’s character strengths and how they perform their jobs. However, no research to date has focused on the relationship of employees’ wisdom strengths, potential mediating effects and creative task performance. Utilizing a large heterogeneous sample (n=974) of working adults, this study found that participants’ levels of the character strengths of wisdom were positively related to their performance on a creative task and negatively related to their reported level of stress. In addition, stress was found to be negatively related to creative task performance, with reported stress partly mediating the relationship between participants’ wisdom and their performance on the creative task. Implications for incorporating character strengths in the development of HRM theory and practice conclude the article. ISSN: 0954-5395 Article type: Research paper Reference: 41AJ809

Keywords: Creativity, Individual psychology, Performance, Stress, Wisdom