Abstract
This paper aims to develop a model of creativity by integrating information exchange, trust and employee Proactivity in the banking organization of Pakistan. Proactive employees have resources for the purpose of implementation of changes. The authors propose that employees with proactive quality gathering and exchanging information resources in the workplace. A trust relationship is built due to this information exchange which ultimately provides psychological safety for creative endeavours. For this purpose a total of 303 managers were selected from banking sector of Pakistan. The study found that employees with proactive quality were involved to gather and share more information and, by so doing strong trust relationships were built with supervisors and colleagues. These trust relationships, in turn, increased employee creativity. Trust also mediates the significant relationship between information exchange and creativity. The authors also discussed the practical implications of the study findings for creativity research.

Sajid Rahman, Saima Batool, Naveed Akhtar, Haider Ali. (2015) Fostering Individual Creativity through Proactive Personality: A Multilevel Perspective, Journal of Managerial Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 2.
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