International Journal of Business Management & Research - Volumes & Issues - Volume 15: Dec 2025, Issue 2

Developing Robust Employee Creativity Framework: Insights From The Manufacturing Industry Of Punjab

  • Published: July-Dec 2025
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Dr. Minika Bawa and Dr. Nishu Garg

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Autonomy, barriers, creativity, knowledge, motivation, skills.

Abstract

Employee creativity is one of the crucial aspects for the growth and competence of the organizations including medium and large-scale manufacturing organizations. Thus, the current study aims to develop a robust model of employee creativity within medium and large-scale manufacturing industries. A sample of 400 employees at the middle management level was selected for this purpose. The research examines various employee-specific, organizational, and facilitating factors that influence employee creativity. Employee-specific factors analyzed in the study include knowledge, skills, intrinsic motivation, self-efficacy, and personality. Organizational factors encompass work autonomy, leader-member exchange, and extrinsic motivation. Facilitating conditions are also considered, focusing on barriers that may hinder employee performance. Using structural equation modeling, the study reveals significant direct impact of knowledge, skills, intrinsic motivation, work autonomy, and extrinsic motivation on employee creativity. Additionally, barriers faced by employees show inverse impact on creativity. Facilitating conditions indirectly affect creativity through their influence on work autonomy, leader-member exchange, and extrinsic motivation. These results indicate that enhancement in the creativity level of employees can not only be addressed only by individual and organizational facets but also by the facilitating conditions which reduce the impact of organizational barriers. The implications of the study include strategies for nurturing a supportive environment that allows autonomy, balances motivation (both intrinsic and extrinsic) and encouraging leader-member relationship.  The present study also identifies various avenues for the future research. Findings of the present study have highlighted potential cohort of employee creativity in the manufacturing settings.

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