The Mediating Effect of Self-Efficacy in the Relationship Between Organizational Climate and Creative Performance

Abstract

The study aimed at examining the mediating effect of self-efficacy in therelationship between organizational climate and creative performance. Thestudy employed a cross-sectional design to examine the phenomenon of creativeperformance among teachers in private secondary schools in central Uganda atone point in time. The study applied a quantitative approach to collect primarydata with the aid of a self-administered questionnaire. The sample size wasdetermined using Krejcie and Morgan's (1970) sampling table, where 217teachers were sampled from a population of 543 teachers in a privatesecondary school located in Nakawa Division, Kampala District, Uganda. Datawere analyzed using IBM SPSS statistical software version 23, and hypotheseswere tested using Process Macro v3.2 (Model 4). The findings of the studyindicate that self-efficacy mediates the relationship between organizationalclimate and creative performance. The study further found that there exists asignificant positive relationship between organizational climate and selfefficacy;self-efficacy and creative performance; and organizational climateand creative performance. This study suggests that organizations that foster apositive organizational climate and self-efficacy are able to achieve creativeperformance. Given the cross-sectional design, the study's inferences cannot berelied on over time. Additionally, the results may limit the generalizability ofthe findings to other cultural contexts; thus, a longitudinal design is preferredto address the study's shortcomings.Keywords: Creative Performance, Organizational Climate, Self-Efficacy, Private SecondarySchools and School Teachers.