Abstract:

Creative self-efficacy, which is defined as the belief one has the ability to produce creative outcomes, plays an important role in the employee creative process. Creative self-efficacy explains as a person’s belief that he or she can successfully perform in a particular setting, derived from Bandura’s more general concept of self-efficacy. The main factors impact on employee creative self-efficacy is summarized: leadership support, the complexity of the work, the years of employee education, work experience and work self-efficacy. The relationship between creative self-efficacy and employee innovation is analysised, positive correlation between them is tested and verified by empirical studies. Finally, Some points about future trends on the research about creative self-efficacy are put forward, which is exploring more measurement tools, doing more empirical research on particular settings and trying to find more related factors.

Key words: employee innovation, creativity, self-efficacy, employee creative self-efficacy