Author(s)

Dickson Mdhlalose

Faculty of Commerce and Law, Eduvos, Johannesburg, South Africa.

There is a necessity for new-fangled formulae of innovation that take hold of unaccompanied encounters such as competitors, unskilled, uncreative, uninventive, and ageing employees. Motivated and innovative employees are the essential procedure for survival organizations must follow. Thus, an organization must initiate an environment that allows and advocates innovation. This research emphasized the innovative employee: the assessment of reward equity on the predisposition to make creative contributions. This study used secondary data. Secondary data was collected online using different search engines, and related journals. Relevant textbooks were consulted to support the study. The findings of this study are that an employee who is motivated by equity reduces the organization’s profitability to the extent that an asymmetrical and disorganized equity-driven employee has no impact on the organization’s costs, balanced energy levels, or higher profits. Even though financial rewards are the best motivating factor for most employees it does not motivate certain employees as they are motivated by intrinsic rewards.

Creativity, Extrinsic Rewards, Innovation, Intrinsic Rewards, Employee, Equity Theory, Organization

Mdhlalose, D. (2022) The Innovative Employee: The Assessment of Reward Equity on the Predisposition to Make Creative Contributions through Literature Review. Journal of Human Resource and Sustainability Studies, 10, 433-448. doi: 10.4236/jhrss.2022.103026.