Employee Creative Behaviour as a Consequence of Workplace Autonomy in Kuwait: A Meditative Study on Employee Engagement

Abstract

The study centralises around the depiction of employee engagement as one of the major factors
in determining Employee Creative Behaviour (ECB) within an enterprise. This concept has been
explained through the exploration of the notion that ECB could be promoted and induced within
a workplace by means of various triggers. These prerequisites are fundamentally accountable for
the estimation of the productivity within a firm, thus entailing the profitability revenue
generation, sustainability and development of a business operative. In this regard, workplace
autonomy has been selected to be the core factor to be investigated in this study, by highlighting
the significance of ECB, and the requirement of encouraging employee engagement through
promotion of autonomy and providing similar individual employee benefits. This study explored
that there are different factors that depictemployee engagement and creative behaviourwithin an
organisation. Considering the business market of Kuwait, these could either be general or
interpersonal. The former includes incentives, training, workplace environment, and leadership.
Whereas, age, gender, qualification, income, organisational experience, employment level, and
ethnicity, all come under the umbrella term of interpersonal characteristics that participate in
generating ECB. The study was conducted by the exploratory analysis of the secondary data
available on Kuwaiti business practices. The results suggest a significant impact of workplace
autonomy on the formation and cultivation of employee creative behaviour with employee
engagement acting as a mediating factor.