Research On The Impact Of Challenge-Hindrance StressorsOn Employee Creativity

With the development of social economy, that our companies will survive the competition by taking the advantage of low cost is becoming more and more difficult, so it’s urgent to improve the innovation ability. It is important to improve employee creativity because it is the premise of an organization’s ability to innovate. In recent years, scholars pay more attention to working situation than individual characteristics on the affecting factors. Job stress is one of the most important situational factors, research on the relationship between creativity and stress is few, and the conclusion is inconsistent, also the mediation mechanism is single.Based on previous researches, the paper builds a theoretical model and puts forward assumptions, then gives a pretest by investigating technical personnel in the IT enterprises to optimize the scale’s reliability and validity. In view of the 243 valid questionnaires, the article does correlation analysis and regression analysis by using SPSS20.0 to discusses how challenge-hindrance stressors effect on employees’ creativity. Specific conclusions are as follows:(1) As to technical personnel in IT enterprises, work orientation, challenge stressors have significant positive influence on employee creativity; hindrance stressors has significant negative influence on employee creativity.(2) As to technical personnel in IT enterprises, challenge stressors have significant positive influence on work engagement and its three dimensions, hindrance stressors have significant negative influence on work engagement and its three dimensions.(3) As to technical personnel in IT enterprises, work engagement and its three dimensions have significant positive influence on employee creativity.(4) As to technical personnel in IT enterprises, Job engagement and its three dimensions all play a partially intermediary role between challenge-hindrance stressors and employee creativity.Finally, according to the conclusion of this article, the author provides some suggestions to improve employee creativity of technical personnel in IT enterprises. On the one hand,companies may give appropriate challenge stressors, while reduce hindrance stressors; on the other hand, company may take some measures to help improve individual’s work engagement from the perspectives of work, organization and family, so that it may promote staff’s creativity.