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Perceived Work Uncertainty And Creativity During The Covid-19 Pandemic: The Roles Of Zhongyong And Creative Self-Efficacy, Chaoying Tang, Huijuan Ma, Stefanie E. Naumann, Ziwei Xing

Eberhardt School of Business Faculty Articles

Research on the relationship between work stress and employee creativity has been mixed. This study on 823 female attorneys in China identifies employee creative self-efficacy and employees’ value of Zhongyong as moderators in this relationship. In this study, work stress is assessed by the perceived work uncertainty brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our study found that although Zhongyong, which involves an employee’s ambidextrous thinking, can be helpful for employee creativity, low levels of Zhongyong are better for employee creativity in an uncertain context such as the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the fact that high levels of Zhongyong result in …