TITLE:
Reducing the Harmful Impact of Work Stress on Creativity? Buffering Model of Available Resources
AUTHORS:
Jie Liu, Yaozhong Liu
KEYWORDS:
Work Stress, Creativity, Work Demands-Resources Model, Buffering Effect
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.8 No.2,
February
20,
2020
ABSTRACT: How work stress affects creativity
has attracted the attention of both enterprises and scholars. Hindrance work
stress and Excessive challenge work stress usually impair creativity. However,
how to buffer the impairment of work stress on creativity has not been studied
in depth. Based on the Job Demands-Resources Model, this study proposes that available
resources of employees can buffer the harmful impact of work stress on
creativity. Available resources can buffer the negative impact of work stress
by supplementing the depleted resources of motivation, cognition, emotion.
Future research should explore other moderators that can buffer the impact of
stress on creativity, how to buffer the influence of stress on creativity when
multiple resources coexist and the boundary conditions under which available
resources can play a buffering role, and finally carry out field study to apply
the research results to management practice.