Facilitating the Creativity of Governmental Employees via High-Involvement Human Resource Management Practices: The Mediating Role of Felt-Trust

Abstract

The study examines some of the facilitators of governmental employees’ creativity by developing and testing a model linking perceived high-involvement human resource practices (HIHRPs) to an employee’s creativity (EC), via the mediating mechanism of an employee’s felt trust (FT). Online questionnaires were used to collect data from 241 staff members at a main governmental university in Jordan. Structural-equation modeling (SEM) via AMOS and the PROCESS macro in SPSS were used for data analysis. The study found: 1-HIHRPs as a bundle had a positive significant influence on EC, however, as discrete practices, only empowerment and competence development had significant relations with EC. 2-HIHRPs (as a bundle and as discrete practices) had positive significant influences on FT. 3-FT was positively and significantly related to EC. 4-FT mediated the relations between HIHRPs (as a bundle and as discrete practices) and EC.