Impact of work values and knowledge sharing on creative performance

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to find the influence of employees’ work values on their creative performance and test the role of knowledge sharing among them. Design/methodology/approach: This work surveyed 387 employees in six companies across three cities to test the research hypothesis model. Findings: The findings reveal that comfort and security (comfort) work values have a significant negative impact on the creative performance, whereas competence and growth (competence) work values and status and independence (status) work values have a significant positive impact on creative performance. Knowledge sharing plays a mediating role between work values and creative performance. Originality/value: This study reveals the influence mechanism of work values on creative performance from a new perspective and confirms the differing effects of different types of work values on creative performance.