This study was to examine the role of gender, the Big Five personality traits and intrinsic motivation as predictors of job creativity among public officers.
Of the 450 public officers in Central Government Complex in Seoul, Korea, 308 completed and returned the questionnaire yielding a total response rate of 68.4%. The final sample consisted of 168 males, 135 females and 5 missing values. Their average age was 39.38 years. It was observed that male officers had higher job creativity, conscientiousness, openness to experience and intrinsic motivation than female officers, whereas female officers had higher neuroticism than male officers. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that gender(male), conscientiousness, openness to experience, extroversion, neuroticism and intrinsic motivation predicted job creativity of public officers. Moreover, mediational analysis indicated that intrinsic motivation mediated the relationship between three of the Big Five personalty traits(i.e., conscientiousness, openness to experience and extroversion) and job creativity.