Relationship between Supervisor's Support and Creativity While Considering the Mediating Role of Feelings of Energy at Work and Intrinsic Motivation

This research was administered with the aim of studying the relationship between supervisor support for innovation and creativity by considering the mediating role of intrinsic motivation and feelings of energy. Statistical population of the research consisted of Haier Factory employees in autumn of 2009, among which, 332 were selected using stratified random sampling to participate in the research. Research questionnaires included: Atwater and Carmeli's (2009), 8 item questionnaire for Assessment of Feelings of Energy at Work, Tierney et al's (1999), 9 item Creativity questionnaire, Tierney and Farmer's (2004), 11 item Supervisor's Support for Creativity Questionnaire, and Tierney et al's (1999), 5 item Intrinsic Structure Equation Modeling and Mediation Motivation Question-naire. Data were analyzed using Pearson's correlation coefficient and regression analysis. The results showed that there are positive significant relations between supervisor's support with intrinsic motivation, feelings of energy and creativity. The research model in which, feelings of energy at work and intrinsic motivation were mediators between supervisor support and employee's creativity at work through structure equation modeling and mediation regression analysis, has only been confirmed by adding an additional path between feelings of energy at work and intrinsic motivation. The findings of this research revealed a preliminary support for occurrence of the Pygmalion effect at work places.