Relationship Between Challenging Work, Creative Problem-Solving Capacity, and Innovation Performance, With Knowledge Sharing as a Moderator

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Yuvadee Siriyasub
Viroj Jadesadalug

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The objective of this research was to study the relationship between challenging work, creative problem-solving capacity, and innovation performance with knowledge sharing as a moderator. The population in this study are officers from the department of disaster prevention and mitigation. The questionnaire was used as a research tool. The data was collected using stratified sampling from central and regional disaster prevention and mitigation officers. A total of 379 complete questionnaires were collected. The statistics used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, regression coefficients, and using the program process to test the effect of the moderator. The results showed that 1) Challenging work was positively correlated to creative problem-solving capacity, and innovative performance with statistical significance at 0.01 and 0.001, respectively. 2) Creative problem-solving capacity was positively correlated to innovation performance with statistical significance at the 0.001 level 3) knowledge sharing is a moderator in the relationship between challenging tasks, creative problem-solving capacity, and innovative performance with statistically significant at 0.01 and 0.05.

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