The Relation of Curiosity and Creative use of IT

摘要

It is essential to identify factors influencing the creative use of IT that can enhance organizational performance. Based on self-determination theory, our approach investigates the intermediate role of employees' curiosity in the relationships between inherent psychological needs and employees' creative use of IT. By using the quantitative method, this study develops a model regarding the creative use of IT. To test the model, surveys are distributed to employees working for organizations located in one of the biggest city in Vietnam. The results indicate that curiosity has partial mediation in the relation between inherent psychological needs and creative use of IT. The findings of this paper are expected to shed a new light into the study of users' behavior, especially in their creative use of IT. This paper also provides valuable insight to practitioners on how to improve their employees' creative use of IT.