To buy or to grow learning goal-oriented employees? Examining a dynamic moderated mediation model that links employees’ learning goal orientation, creative self-efficacy, perceived workplace support, and employee creativity

We propose a dynamic mediated model of employee learning goal orientation on subsequent employee creativity change via creative self-efficacy change. We further hypothesize that employees’ perceived workplace support for creativity moderates this dynamic mediated effect. We examine our hypotheses using a latent change score modeling approach based on 281 matched employee-supervisor data from three waves. Our results reveal that both learning goal orientation and learning goal orientation change are associated with a concurrent change in creative self-efficacy, which, in turn, leads to a subsequent change in employee creativity. Furthermore, we find that employees’ perceived workplace support strengthens the impact of the change in creative selfefficacy on subsequent change in creativity.