English to Spanish Social Sciences Human Resources Research on employee's feedback seeking behavior and its relationship with creative performance

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Creative performance: Following prior research, we used supervisor ratings to assess employees’ creative performance .... Using 13 items, supervisors rated the creative performance of their subordinates on a scale ranging from 1 (“not at all characteristic”) to 5 (“very characteristic”). A sample item taken from the scale is “Comes up
with creative solutions to problems.” As in previous research, these items ****** loaded on a single factor ******.