Improving Job Performance through Mindfulness in the light of Creativity, Creative Participation, and Humble Leadership

Mindfulness, as a positive psychological state or process, provides the constructive behavior and improvement of job performance. In order to know more about the way effectiveness of this effect, this study examines the intervening effects of humble leadership in the relationship between mindfulness, job performance and creativity.

The research is applied in terms of purpose and survey-descriptive in terms of data collection method. The population of this study are the military men of an organization in Tehran, Iran from which the sample was selected using the random sampling. The data was collected using the questionnaire and the hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling based on partial least squares with smart PLS software.

The results of the research findings support the majority of hypotheses based on the relationship between mindfulness and job performance, employee creativity and creative process participation. Humble leadership moderated the relationship between creativity and creative process engagement and job performance. Moreover, the results proved the effect of mindfulness on job performance through employee creativity.

Cultivating the ability of employees' mindfulness can help improve their preparation and mental fluidity for creativity and willingness to actively participate in creative processes in the organization to improve their job performance. The findings of this research can promote attention to the category of mindfulness among researchers and organizational practitioners.