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Impact of Workaholics on Creativity: the mediating role of Negative Mood and moderating role of Supervisor Support

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  • Abdullah, Muhammad

    (Department of Business Administration, University of the Punjab, Gujranwala)

  • Katper, Naveeda

    (Institute of Business Administration, Faculty of Commerce and BusinessAdministration, University of Sindh, Allama I.I. Qazi Campus Jamshoro)

  • Chaudhry, Naveed Iqbal

    (Department of Business Administration, University of the Punjab, Gujranwala)

  • Tunio, Muhammad Nawaz

    (AlpenAdria University, Klagenfurt, Austria)

Abstract

Employees are an asset to their organization. The organizations needto provide the best management and supervisory support to their employees to ensure quality work. The current study is based on the workaholic nature of employees and their creative skills. It focuseson the employees of Advertising Agencies. Such organizations need personnel with creative skills and they should develop an environment for their employees to work in a better way and come up with extraordinary results. Thisstudy focusesonthe impact of workaholics on the creativity ofemployees the mediating role of negative mood between workaholics and creativity and the moderating role of supervisor support between the workaholics and negative mood. The data has been collected from different advertising agencies of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, through questionnaires with N=350.Results showthat workaholics are creative andit has a positive significant relationship with each other. Negativemood plays a mediating role between these two but supervisor support doesn’t moderate between workaholics and negative mood.This study helps organizations to increase employee creativity by elevating a negative mood by incorporating several techniques in the context of Pakistani advertising agencies.

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  • Abdullah, Muhammad & Katper, Naveeda & Chaudhry, Naveed Iqbal & Tunio, Muhammad Nawaz, 2020. "Impact of Workaholics on Creativity: the mediating role of Negative Mood and moderating role of Supervisor Support," Sukkur IBA Journal of Management and Business, Sukkur IBA University, vol. 7(2), pages 73-92, July-Dece.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:ibajmb:0076
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    Keywords

    Employee creativity; employee negative mood; supervisor support; workaholics;
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    JEL classification:

    • M31 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Marketing and Advertising - - - Marketing

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