"Dear Employer, Let Me Introduce Myself" - Flow, Satisfaction with Work-Life Balance and Millennials' Creativity

With creativity being recognised as a key driver of organizational success, organizations emphasize the need for their employees to be creative and to work long hours. This article takes a step toward understanding the factors contributing to the creativity of millennials, a generation pursuing meaningful work and cherishing a work-life balance. In Study 1 (n = 238), the relationships between creativity, flow, satisfaction with work-life balance and job crafting were explored; in Study 2 (n = 120) the focus was on examining flow as the mediator in the relationship between satisfaction with work-life balance and creativity. In experimental Study 3 (n = 90), the findings from Study 2 were replicated. Overall, the results of the three studies established flow as the mediating variable and demonstrated the beneficial role of satisfaction with the work-life balance and job crafting in the process leading to creativity.