The Role of Psychological Capital in Work Engagement and Creativity of Information Technology Workers

Psychological capital has been considered a positive psychological resource that can be used to nurture workplace creativity among Information and Technology workers. However, there seems to be no study on how these psychological resources influence creativity and work engagement among Information and Technology workers in the Ghanaian context. This paper investigated the role of psychological capital and work engagement in creativity of Information and Technology workers. We obtained data in a cross-sectional survey involving 209 Information and Technology workers, comprising of 139 males and 70 females, with approximately 73% of them being between the ages 20-30 years. The data were analysed using Hayes PROCESS model and standard multiple linear regression. The result showed that psychological capital positively predicted employee engagement and creativity. Hayes (2022) PROCESS model for mediation analysis revealed that work engagement partially mediated the relationship between psychological capital and creativity among the I.T workers. The study found no significant differences in creativity between male and female I.T. workers. These findings emphasised the relevance of psychological capital in work engagement and creativity of workers. We therefore recommend that management of I.T. and other organisations should invest resources in training programmes that would nurture psychological resources in their employees, as this, has positive implication for their engagement and creativity at work.