The thesis studies the nature of motivation within challenge and enjoyment; influence and impact level of challenge and enjoyment on creativity; The role of regulating leadership style empowerment.
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because the survey was conducted one way;
Thirdly, the new study can analyzes only the difference of each
research factor among different target groups but has not considered
the difference of the overall model with target groups
Finally, like most other studies on this topic, the research was
conducted in one sector and needs to be further expanded to establish
the generality of the proposed findings
CONCLUSION
The thesis was conducted to study the motivation to creativity in
the viewpoint of organizational behavior, specifically: (i) in-depth
study on the nature of intrinsic motivation in challenge and
enjoyment dimensions as well as consider the relationship of each
dimension with creativity; (ii) at the same time study the moderator
role of the empowering leadership in these relationships Basing on
this, the thesis explains the inconsistent results and the changing
relationship between intrinsic motivation and creativity, and suggests
synchronous and focused solutions to nurture motivation and further
promote the employees’ creativity in the context of electricity
generation enterprises in Vietnam, so as to improve operational
efficiency, flexibly meet the development roadmap of electricity
market as well as to develop stronger for international integration
INTRODUCTION
1 Reason for the topic selection
In terms of theory, intrinsic motivation is considered as a predictor for creativity (Amabile, 1996) However, the review of researches over the past 30 years shows inconsistent results and the changing relationship between intrinsic motivation and creativity A number of recent research directions have been conducted to explain this problem, typically by the studies of Grantt and Berry (2011), Leung et al (2014), and Logan and Tristan (2017) However, there are not many direct studies but the relationship is placed in a series of various factors, which can lead to discrepancy and unconvincing arguments while interpreting the inconsistent results of this relationship
In order to study more about the relationship between intrinsic motivation and creativity, it is necessary to consider the impact of contextual factors on this relationship, particularly the issues related
to leadership due to continuous and long-term influence on the context as well as creative objects In fact, many studies have been conducted to examine the influence of leadership on employee performance However, most of the studies focus on issues such as leadership support or leadership styles in general, meanwhile not many researches have mentioned leadership styles as a foundation to
encourage creativity This shows the potential role as a regulator of empowering leadership in relation between challenge and enjoyment dimensions and creativity while there is a shortage of empirical evidences for the hypothesis of these relationships
The production of electricity as well as enterprises in the field of electricity generation are the key component in the chain of
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Geneation - Transmission - Distribution and Trading of electricity,
especially when electricity generation accounts for the largest
proportion of electricity production cost Moreover, the pressure of
the competitive electricity market has forced power generation
enterprises to innovate and restructure to achieve better efficiency
Thus, to meet the urgent needs of restructuring to improve
operational efficiency in the current period as well as to flexibly
respond to changes and roadmap for the development of Vietnam's
Electricity Market, with the key role in the power generation value
chain, power generation enterprises must constantly innovate and
maximize their autonomy and dynamic in production and business,
especially to encourage employees passion, dedication and creativity
because creativity is the most important factor creating innovation in
the organization and vice versa (Amabile, 1988)
From the above-mentioned theoretical and practical needs, the
thesis shall focus on studying The relationship of empowering
leadership, intrinsic motivation and creativity: Research in
Generation companies of Vietnam
2 Aims of research
Firstly, to study the nature of intrinsic motivation in terms of 02
dimensions including challenge and enjoyment;
Secondly, to study the impact and extent of influence of challenge
and enjoyment dimensions on creativity;
Thirdly, to study the moderator role of empowering leadership in
the relationship between the 02 dimensions of intrinsic motivation
and creativity;
Lastly, to propose recommendations to promote employee’s
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5.3 Recommendations to promote motivation for creativity
Firstly, review and redesign Job Descriptions focusing on the outcome requirements which are more challenging to nurture motivation, while considering the scope, powers and responsibilities to appropriately empower so as to make employees be more proactive and creative in their work;
Secondly, empower employees by: promoting the sense of meaningful work; facilitating employees to take part in decision making; showing confidence in high performance and giving autonomy to eliminate complicated procedures;
Thirdly, insert leaders’ empowerment issues into competence framework and capacity dictionary of enterprises, in which developing clear criteria are built to assess leaders’ ability of empowerment After that, raise awareness of and provide training to improve empowering leadership skills to leaders at all levels of the enterprise;
Fourthly, it is necessary to pay attention and promply develop standards and measures to find out employees with outstanding intrinsic motivation, especially the challenge dimension Thereby, recruit employees with intrinsic motivation, and then facilitate and develop them into the enterprise’s core team;
Finally, create open administrative mechanisms that encourage creativity
5.4 Short coming and next research approach
First, the study is of data slicing design, basing on representative samples and at a certain time;
Secondly, data collected from technical staff, engineers and experts directly involved in system regulation and operation
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the relationship with creativity Specifically, the challenge dimension
of the intrinsic motivation attaches importance to the cognitive
process, reflecting the motivation driven by a conscious focus on the
upcoming challenges and the needs to address complex tasks.On the
contrary, the enjoyment dimension of the intrinsic motivation
attaches importance to personal feelings, reflecting the motivation
driven by a conscious focus on the feeling of enjoyment when
performing the actions of the task, preferring to experience the
problem rather than engaging to seek for ways to solve problems or
finding smart and appropriate solutions This indicates that if focus
on implications of the challenge dimension, performance of creativity
shall improve and are suitable for all contexts including work or art
environment
In addition, the research focus and emphasis of this thesis is to
consider the role empowering leadership with this relationship
because previous studies have largely focused on the intermediary
role of intrinsic motivation between the contextual factors and
creativity while few mentioned the important role of regulatory
factors in the context of the changing relationship between intrinsic
motivation and creativity In which, empowering leadership is one of
the effective and basic method with regular and continuous influence
on the motivation promoting creativity as well as the ability to create
sustainable results for the future Therefore, the thesis has
contributed to exploiting the other role of this factor, specifically: the
relationship between the challenge dimension of motivation and
creativity will be stronger in the context of empowerment leadership
the context of power generation in Vietnamese electricity industry in general
3 Object and scope of research
Object of research: The impact of intrinsic motivation (in terms of
challenge and enjoyment) on creativity at individual level; moderator role of the empowering leadership in the relationship between intrinsic motivation (in terms of challenge and enjoyment) and creativity at individual level
Object of survey: Technical staff, engineers and experts directly
participate in the regulation and management of system operation These are the ones whose work requires a high level of autonomy, flexibility and creativity to be effective
Scope of research:
- Research time: 2010 – 2018
- Research object: Vietnamese generation companies including more than 451 power plants of 357 enterprises; in which, Vietnamese
enterprises operating in the field of electricity generation (hereinafter referred to as electricity generation enterprises) are the ones granted
electricity operation license (Circular No 12/2017/TT-BCT, 2017) and owns power plants in the territory of Vietnam and its main product is electricity
4 New contributions of the thesis
- In theoretical terms: (i) Provide substantiation to reinforce the
theoretical view that intrinsic motivation has molecular structure including 02 independent components which are challenge and enjoyment dimensions; (ii) The key and new point of this research is
the moderator role of the empowering leadership in the relationship
between the dimensions of intrinsic motivation and creativity; (iii)
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Provide an additional indicator (observed variable) to the research
variable "Creative" and have proved that this indicator is reliable and
consistent with the research context of the thesis
- In practical terms: (i) Suggest new solutions to enhance
creativity focusing on the challenge dimension; (ii) Suggest that a
way to strengthen the relationship between intrinsic motivation with
creativity can pay attention to the issue of empowerment; (iii) The
research model developed from Western doctrines tested in Vietnam
will consider whether the concept of Western empowerment,
motivation and creativity theories can be applied to various cultural
contexts (eg Vietnam, specifically power generation enterprises)
5 Structure of the thesis
After the Introduction, the thesis consists of the following
sections: Literature review; Theoretical basis; Research methods;
Research results; Comments on research results and
recommendations
CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW
1.1 Main approaches in studying creativity
The thesis applies Social Psychology approach and Organizational
Behavior to build a theoretical model to test hypotheses about
relationships and coordination between employee external and
internal factors to enhance creativity
1.2 Research on factor affecting creativity
Basing on the above-mentioned factors affecting employees'
creativity, it can be seen that intrinsic motivation and issues
relating to leadership such as the encouragement, support and
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2 An indicator is added for the usefulness of creativity variable and proved to be highly reliable and consistent with the thesis’ research context
3 Affirm that intrinsic motivation is not a single concept but a molecular structure including 02 independent dimensions, challenge and enjoyment Prove that the challenge dimension has a positive impact on creativity while the relationship between the enjoyment dimension and creativity dimension is not statistically significant Thereby, suggest explaining the cause of inconsistent relationship between intrinsic motivation and creativity due to the tendency to use Enjoyment dimension to measure or represent intrinsic motivation while considering in the relationship with creativity
4 Assess the status of intrinsic motivation (Enjoyment and Challenge dimensions), creativity, and empowering leadership of Vietnamese power generation enterprises At the same time, compare and analyze the differences between businesses with different characteristics to make appropriate recommendations
5 Assert the empowering leadership plays the role of a regulatory variable and has a positive impact on the relationship between Challenge dimension and creativity; simultaneously, suggest some additional issues related to the level of empowerment, empowered subjects and types of empowered work in the thesis research context
5.2 Comments on research results
These empirical results plays an important role in reinforcing the theory of intrinsic motivation with molecular structure including two independent dimensions: challenge and enjoyment. The results also confirm the function of intrinsic motivation is to control the
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relationship between the enjoyment dimension of intrinsic
motivation and creativity
Table 4.11: Analysis of factors influencing creativity
Enjoyment 0340 .1850 1839 8542 -.3294 3975
Empowerment 3952 .1874 2.1082 0355 0269 7635
Enjoyment x
Empowerment .0566 .0578 .9794 .3279 -.0569 .1701
Source: Summarized from AMOS data processing application
Results indicate that:
- The relationship between Enjoyment dimension of intrinsic
motivation and creativity are not statistically significant (p-value >
0.05)
- The relationship between the enjoyment dimension of intrinsic
motivation and empowering leadership and creativity are not
statistically significant (p-value > 0.05)
In conclusion, the results indicate that Hypothesis H4 is not
accepted
CHAPTER 5: COMMENT ON RESULTS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1 Summary of research results
1 In the context of electricity generation enterprises in Vietnam,
the usefulness is particularly emphasized more than the novelty,
which indicate the interest in the relevance of creative results to
organizations since the ultimate goal of creativity in work context is
to create value for the organization; the novelty is necessary but not
enough; the important thing is the usefulness and contribution value
to the organization
two most important factors due to their frequent occurrence in many research results domestically and internationally
1.3 Some inconsistent results between intrinsic motivation and creativity
In theorical terms, according to Amabile's Componential Theory
of creativity (1983), intrinsic motivation is one of the most important and influential impact on employee's creativity (Amabile et al 1996; Shalley, 1991/1995) However, the results of experiments and field studies on this relationship have some inconsistent evidence
1.4 The potential of the moderator role of the empowering leadership in the relationship between intrinsic motivation and creativity
Although no direct study has examined the moderator role of the empowering leadership factor in the relationship between intrinsic motivation and creativity, this possibility is comprehensively grounded In particular, in terms of internal meaning, the cocept of empowering leadership and intrinsic motivation are correlated when the implications of both concepts are to promoting autonomy and enhancing the employees’ engagement to the task; these are the necessary conditions to create creativity, thereby promoting the positive impact of intrinsic motivation on individual creativity
1.5 Research gap and the focus of the thesis
In theoretical terms, intrinsic motivation is a solid predictor of creativity Review of researches over the past 30 years shows an unstable relationship between intrinsic motivation and creativity The existence of two different dimensions of intrinsic motivation can provide an important explanation for inconsistent results on the relationship between intrinsic motivation and creativity However,
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this research direction requires more empirical evidence and should
be considered in other contexts and areas to reinforce its argument
Moreover, the context and the moderator role of this factor can
provide an important explanation of the variable relationship between
intrinsic motivation and creativity even though this issue has not
attracted attention from researches In addition, although there is no
direct study that examines the moderator role of the empowering
leadership factor in the relationship between intrinsic motivation and
creativity, this possibility is comprehensively grounded In particular,
in terms of internal meaning, the cocept of empowering leadership
and intrinsic motivation are correlated when the implications of both
concepts are to promoting autonomy and enhancing the employees’
engagement to the task; these are the necessary conditions to create
creativity, thereby promoting the positive impact of intrinsic
motivation on creativity
CHAPTER 2: THEORETICAL BASIS
2.1 Creativity
Creativity is understood as the ability to create ideas, products,
services or a new, useful process and apply those new, useful ideas
into practice to create new products or new processes in organization
(Amabile, 1988; Madjar, Oldham and Pratt, 2002; Shalley, Gilson
and Blum, 2000; Zhou and Shalley, 2003; Shalley and Zhou, 2008)
2.2 Intrinsic Motivation
Intrinsic motivation is the level of perseverance, enjoyment or
concentration of an individual on his work and participation in that
work for the purpose of each task to implement it (Utman, 1997)
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Table 4.9: Analysis of factors influencing creativity
Challenge 0.3515 0.0923 3.8104 0.0002 0.1702 0.5328 Empowerment 0.6973 0.1077 6.4733 0.0000 0.4856 0.9090 Challenge x
Empowerment 0.1164 0.0277 4.1984 0.0000 0.0619 0.1708
Source: Summarized from AMOS data processing application
Results indicate that:
- The relationship between Challenge dimension of intrinsic motivation and creativity are statistically significant (p-value <0.05)
- The relationship between the empowering leadership and creativity are statistically significant (p-value <0.05)
- The relationship between the challenge dimension of intrinsic motivation and empowering leadership and creativity are statistically significant (p-value = 0.005 <0.05)
Table 4.10: Analysis of the relationship between the challenge dimension and creativity under the influence of empowering
leadership
0,6230 0,0339 18,3772 0,0000 0,5564 0,6896 0,7394 0,0236 31,3882 0,0000 0,6931 0,7857 0,7808 0,0267 29,2243 0,0000 0,7283 0,8332
Source: Summarized from AMOS data processing application
- At the low, medium and high levels of the empowering leadership, the relationship between the challenge dimension of intrinsic motivation and creativity is statistically significant (p-value
<0.05) and this influence gradually increases
In conclusion, the results indicate that Hypothesis H3 is accepted: The empowering leadership regulate the relationship between the Challengeg dimension of intrinsic motivation and creativity, the link
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Estimated P-value Creativity < - Challenge 0,351 0,000
Creativity < - Enjoyment 0,026 0,587
Source: Summarized from AMOS data processing application
Hypothesis H1: The challenge dimension of intrinsic motivation
positively influences creativity, results indicate that this hypothesis is
accepted at 95% reliability due to P-value =0.000 < 0.05
Hypothesis H2: The enjoyment dimension of intrinsic motivation
positively influences creativity, results indicate that this hypothesis
has P-value = 0.587 > 0.05 which means the relationship between
Enjoyment dimension of intrinsic motivation and creativity is not
statistically significant
+) ANALYSIS OF REGULATORY FACTOR WITH A.F
HAYES PROCESS TOOL
To analyze regulatory factor, the author used Model 1 of A.F
Hayes (2013):
Figure 4.3: A.F Hayes Model No 1 on regulatory factor analysis
a Varification the empowering leadership impact on the
relationship between the challenge dimension of intrinsic
motivation and creativity
2.3 Empowering leadership
The empowering leadership is the promotion of the feeling that one’s work iss meaningful; facilitating the participation in decision making; demonstrating trust with high job performance and psychology of autonomy to eliminate complex procedures (Ahearne, Mathieu and Rapp, 2005; Conger and Kanungo, 1988; Thomas and Velthouse, 1990)
2.4 The relationship between empowering leadership, intrinsic motivation and creativity
2.4.1 The relationship between the challenge and enjoyment dimensions and creativity
The challenge dimensions of intrinsic motivation that reflect motivation are driven by a conscious focus on upcoming challenges and the needs to prefer complex tasks At the same time, in solving problem, thinking efforts can be stressful and anxious (Cacioppo et al., 1996), but those with intrinsic motivation in the high challenge dimension are less stressed by tasks of intellectual challenge and simultaneously prefer to solve the bottom of the problem; therefore, the proposed solution is likely to both novelty and usefulness of creativity Thus, it can be seen that the focus of intrinsic motivation
in Challenge dimension is toward the awareness to overcome challenges and solve complex problems, which shows that the dimension of this intrinsic motivation has an active relationship with creativity Therefore, the thesis proposes:
Hypothesis H1: The challenge dimension of intrinsic motivation positively influences creativity
On the contrary, the enjoyment dimension of intrinsic motivation reflects the motive driven by a conscious focus on the feeling of
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enjoyment when performing actions of the task, preferring to
experience the problem rather than finding smart and appropriate
solutions.Individuals affected by this motivation dimension tend to
feel that "doing this task is enjoying." However, some studies show
that Enjoyment dimension positively influences the novelty of
creative products (Hirt et al., 1996) and is particularly relevant in the
context of artistic and literary composition when the main goal is
expressing Ego, promoting emotions and personal imprints though it
focus less to address the purpose of the task Therefore, the thesis
also propose:
Hypothesis H2: The enjoyment dimension of intrinsic motivation
positively influences creativity
2.4.2 Moderator role of the empowering leadership in the
relationship between the challenge and enjoyment dimensions of
intrinsic motivation and creativity
In the leadership-related factors and the empowerment leadership
style plays a particularly important role In terms of the nature of
creativity, such empowerment creates the working environment in
which employees are encouraged and empowered to explore diverse
creative options before choosing a possible creative solution Exams
to solve problems (Amabile et al., 1996)
Moreover, if leaders and managers clearly define creativity or
problem solving as a goal, help employees clearly understand the
goal, empower and provide them tools to perform the task in the best
way, employees will direct their attention, effort and energy to the
goal by actively participating in the creative process (Speller &
Schumacher, 1975; Carson & Carson, 1993)
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variance extracted, the average variance extracted of measures basically meet the requirement (EVA> 0.5) Consequently, concepts achieve convergent value (Gerbring and Anderson, 1988) (quoted from Nguyen Khanh Duy, 2009, p 21)
- Distinguishing value: We varify hypothesis H0: The correlation coefficient between concepts is 1 From the collected data, all of the correlations have P-value <0.05 Thus, the correlation coefficients of each pair of concepts differ from 1 at 95% of reliability In conclusion, these concepts have distinguishing values
- Uniqueness: The model reaches a relative level of compatibility and there is no correlation between measurement errors which means the model has uniqueness
4.2.4 Result of varification of research hypotheses
Figure 4.2: Result of varification research model and
hypotheses with SEM
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variables after data processing
Name of
measure Author
Initial quantity
Quantity after Cronbach’s Alpha’s analysis
Quantity after EFA
Empowering
Leadership
Ahearne et al
Intrinsic
Motivation
(Challenge
dimension)
Amabile et al
Intrinsic
Motivation
(Enjoyment
dimension)
Amabile et al
Creativity
Zhou and
George (2001)
+ 01 variable
of the author
derived from
qualitative
research
Source: Summarized by author 4.2.3.3 Result of confirmation factor analysis (CFA)
Varification of the appropriateness of the model (Critical
measurement model has 318 degrees of freedom CFA results show
that the model is of relative compatibility with the overall: λ2[132] =
391,126 (P-value= 0,000<0,05); Chi-square/df = 2,963 (<3 – Good);
TLI = 0,947 (>0,9); CFI = 0,954 (>0,9); GFI = 0,904 (>0,9 – Good);
RMSEA = 0,064 (<0,08).);
Convergence value: the standardized weights of the measure are
all high (> 0.5) and the unstandardized weights are statistically
significant (P-value <0.05) All the measurements meet the
requirement for composite reliability (CR> 0.7) In terms of average
In addition, empowerment can make employees feel more self-reliant and trusted in their work, especially the more they feel that decisions come from their wishes instead of others’ requirement This can increase feelings of enjoyment when satisfying your personal ego and the needs of self-assertion and expression of Enjoyment dimension towards creativity Or facing difficult, complex, unexpected and unusual work situations, empowerment gives employees a sense of controlling their work and help them to proactively propose solutions within their competence, promotes employees’ effort and sense enjoyment to create various work outcomes, thereby increasing the impact of the challenge dimension
on creativity
Therefore, the thesis propose|:
Hypothesis H3: Empowering leadership regulates the relationship between the challenge dimension of intrinsic motivation and creativity, the link of which is stronger in case of enhancing the empowerment
Hypothesis H4: Empowering leadership regulates the relationship between the enjoyment dimension of intrinsic motivation and creativity, the link of which is stronger in case of enhancing the empowerment
2.5 Research models and hypotheses
From theoretical basis, the research proposes the expected research model below
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Figure 2.4: Proposed research model
CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHOD
3.1 Research procedure
The thesis is conducted basing on the qualitative and quantitative
research method: (i) To ensure objectivity, logicality and
universality, the study first identifies research objectives, conducts an
overview to develop theoretical framework and identify research
hypotheses;(ii) Next, qualitative research was conducted to explore
the relationship between factors by semi-structured in-depth
interviews; (iii) In order to improve variables the measuring research
concepts, a preliminary quantitative research (pilot test) was
conducted in a power generation enterprise; (iv) Finally, the formal
quantitative research was conducted at 36 power generation
enterprises to test research hypotheses and report on research results
CHALLENGE
CREATIVITY
H1
H2
H3 H4
EMPOWERING
LEADERSHIP
ENJOYMENT
INTRINSIC MOTIVATION
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Kurtosis are within the respective allowable limit of about +/- 2 The above results confirm that the measures with distribution are accurate, meeting the requirements of verification and analysis in the following sections
4.2.3 Results of factor verification
4.2.3.1 Result of varification of measures’ reliability (Cronbach’s Alpha)
The results show that there are some relative adjustments of
measures, specifically: TQ6 (My manager believes in my ability to improve/correct even if I make a mistake); DL14 (I like relatively simple tasks (R)); DL21 (I want to discover how well I can do when I
do my job); DL26 (I like tasks that can be so appealing that I forget everything around); and ST10 (I propose new ways to perform tasks)
with a total correlation coefficient <0.3
4.2.3.2 Result of exploratory factor analysis (EFA)
After the first EFA, the ST9 measure (I have new ideas and breakthrough improvements) with the factor loading <0.5 was removed After removing the ST9 measure, the result after processing SPSS data is as follows: Transmission coefficient of all variables are> 0.5, meeting the requirement; KMO coefficient reaches 0.907,
so EFA is suitable for data Chi - Square statistics of Bartlett 's test have significance Sig = 0,000 which means that the observed variables are correlated in terms of the overall scope; The results of factor analysis also showed that the variance is interpreted as 62.61% (greater than 50%), which indicates that these 3 factors can explain for the 62.61% variation of data, this is a good result; The stop while extracting factors at the third factor with the eigenvalue is 1,535 The
results of factor analysis are appropriate Thus, the results indicate that 27 observed variables after factor analysis satisfy all conditions
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the exploitation and operation process while other issues related to
the fabrication of main components and replacement of parts still
depend entirely on experts from oversea firms, especially for gas
turbine thermal power and renewable energy Therefore, creative
activities at power plants mainly stems from the process of
rationalization of production in the calculation, regulation and
optimal operation of the system including formulation of bidding and
marketing strategies, troubleshooting as well as maintenance, at the
same time focusing on the objects who are direct manpower of
electricity production because the number of technicians working in
operating positions in power business always accounts for a large
proportion (over 70%)
4.2 Results of the official quantitative research
4.2.1 Statistical description of research sample
The number of power plants in the survey sample is over 36
power generation enterprises owning power plants of all types
including Hydroelectricity, Coal Thermoelectricity, Gas Turbine,
Renewable Energy, belonging to the model of State-owned
enterprise, Domestic and Foreign Investors (BOT), enterprises
participating in the electricity market and enterprises not participating
in the electricity market The number of questionnaires issued is 550,
the number of collected is 503 (accounting for 91.4%), of which
479/503 can be used (accounting for 95.2%) )
4.2.2 Calibration results of measures distribution format
The collected data illustrates that the smallest and largest values
of measures are in the range of 1 to 5, which implies that there is no
limit to the variation of the used measures These values fluctuate
around the equilibrium value of 3.26; The standard deviation value is
less than 1.0 Finally, the two absolute values of Skewness and
Figure 3.1: Research procedure
Source: Summarized by author
3.2 Qualitative research
The initial qualitative research was conducted with 15 officials from 06 power plants by semi-structured in-depth interviews At each plant, a manager, officer or engineer with many recognized achievements on creativity is selected to interview The interviewees have at least 5 years of experience and are knowledgeable about the operation of enterprises, organizations and the electricity industry,
TOOL
and Measures
Qualitative Research (15 employees of 06 Gencos)
Adjustment Hypothesized Model and Measures (round 1)
Quantitative Research (Pilot)
n = 148 employees of Son La Hydro Plant
Completed Measures
Quantitative Research
Analysis of Hypothesis
Analysis of differences between the groups of research subjects
Semi-structured in depth interview
Cronbach’s Alpha
Cronbach’s Alpha, EFA
CFA, SEM, Process of Hayes
Solution
Descriptives, Oneway - Anova
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and have at least 01 initiatives or improvements recognized at
company level.The results are compared with the personnel profile
as well as survey conducted with colleagues and superiors of the
interviewees
Results of qualitative research:
(1) In the context of electricity generation enterprises in Vietnam,
the usefulness is especially emphasized more than novelty; Creative
activities at power plants come from the process of production
Therefore, creative activities focus mainly in the direct production
group rather than the indirect group, while the results of creativity in
power plants tend to be the in the form of improvement that changes
the existence (modification) (Kreitner and Kinicki, 2004);
(2) Subjects led by high level of intrinsic motivation have more
ideas, innovations and improvements in more regular frequencies and
they are often the key players in proposing and implementing those
creative solutions Therefore, there exists a positive relationship
between high intrinsic motivation and creativity
(3) There are some implied evidences that intrinsic motivation has
two dimensions which are challenge and enjoyment However, the
implication of the challenge dimension is emphasized and mentioned
more than the enjoyment dimension in the context of electricity
generation enterprises in Vietnam;
(4) The impact level of the intrinsic motivation on creativity has a
positive change when it comes to the factors of empowering
leadership context and vice versa However, the extent of
empowerment and the type of empowered work is different for
different subjects
With these findings and arguments, the author suggests: (i)
Maintaining the research model and hypothesis, continuing to test
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Add one measure for creativity factor, namely: "My solutions bring practical value to the organization"; (iii) Some new findings on the above factors in the context of electricity generation enterprises in Vietnam will be the basis for commenting on research results and recommendations for the next sections
3.3 Preliminary study at an electricity generation enterprise
Preliminary quantitative research was conducted with a survey of
170 staff from direct group of Son La Hydropower Company After collecting the required number of questionnaires, the author classified them Among, 148 out of 153 collected questionnaires can be used to
analyze and determine the reliability of the measures The results
show some relative adjustments of the measures
3.4 Official survey research
The official quantitative research was conducted with 550 staff of direct groups from 36 electricity generation enterprises The collected data was used for measurement reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), affirmative factor analysis (CFA), and testing of research hypothesis with SEM linear structure model and analysis with the Process tool of AF Hayes to test the impact of independent variables on the dependent variables
CHAPTER 4: RESEARCH RESULTS 4.1 Research context
The production of electricity as well as enterprises in the field of electricity generation are the key component in the chain of Geneation - Transmission - Distribution and Trading of electricity, especially when electricity generation accounts for the largest proportion of electricity production cost Moreover, the pressure of the competitive electricity market has forced power generation