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How does employees’ creativity affect their well-being in the workplace? It has often been assumed that individual creativity has various positive benefits to the health and well-being of employees. However, we argue in this chapter that being creative in the workplace can have various negative influences on the well-being of employees as well. Specifically, we suggest that being creative in the workplace can also lead to negative outcomes such as depletion of personal resources, alienation, conflict, and the experience of personal grief in the case of failed creative efforts. This chapter makes an important contribution to the existing literature on the outcomes of employee creativity. Several managerial implications and suggestions for future research are also offered.
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Mustafa, M., Ramos, H.M. (2018). The Darkness in Janusian Thinking: Considering the Relationship Between Creativity in the Workplace and Employee Well-Being. In: Martin, L., Wilson, N. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity at Work. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77350-6_13
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