JOB SATISFACTION AND CREATIVITY – THE CASE OF A TRANSITION COUNTRY

Abstract

The introduction of democracy in post-socialist countries is still accompanied by their struggling to reach political consolidation and economic development. This has come due to the delayed and poor attempts of the transformation of individuals at every institutional and organizational level. The purpose of this paper is to study how can this be reached through a new work ethic and by giving people the opportunity to demonstrate responsibility and the ability to deal with information, power and freedom by showing creativity at work. The primary data were collected by the means of a structured questionnaire, which was distributed to a sample of people residing in the Republic of Albania, mostly at Master level of education, employed in different private and state institutions, representing the creative class of the society. A regression analysis was used, and different tests were undertaken which showed that job satisfaction is very much affected by many of the variables related to the dimensions of creativity. The findings will contribute to a better understanding of the impact of entrepreneurs on employee’s creativity, and how can it influence people’s mentality, as the missing puzzle of getting out of the prolonged political and economic transition of a Western Balkan country like Albania. As there is a lack of scientific papers in Albania regarding creativity, and the country lays behind in the Creativity Index compared to other countries in the region, this research gains an increased importance for the Albanian academic milieu as well.

Keywords

• Creativity
• Job Satisfaction
• Mentality

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