“…Employees may exhibit creativity by developing new knowledge, advancing technologies, or by making process improvements that will lead to innovations. Employee innovativeness can be defined as engagement in innovative behavior related to the innovation process (de Jong & Kemp, 2003;Parzefall, Seeck, & Leppänen, 2008). Amabile (1997) writes that expertise, creative thinking skills, and motivation, when mixed together, identify the level of creativity within an individual.…”