A Study on Secretary’s Core Self-Evaluations and Creativity

To explore creativity among secretaries, the adapted Woodman’s Interactional Model of Creativity (1993) was used in the current study, which presents the interaction in the personal and contextual factors that affect creativity. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between secretary’s core self-evaluations and creativity and to measure the moderating effect of the organizational learning culture and the supervisor’s emotional intelligence. A survey collected from 167 secretaries working in Korea was used for analysis. The findings revealed that the secretary’s core self-evaluations had a positive effect on creativity. In addition, the organizational learning culture and the supervisor’s emotional intelligence had a negative moderating effect on the relationship between secretary’s core self-evaluations and creativity. The findings of this study will help bring better understanding of secretaries’ creativity in the interactional perspective and core self-evaluations and will provide useful suggestions to develop the training program for the secretary’s creativity and the core self-evaluations.