<p>Organizational politics can negatively impact employee creativity. However, our understanding of how this occurs is still incomplete. To complement this existing body of work, we examine how and when organizational politics affect employee creativity. Based on the social information processing perspective and insights from the creativity literature, we posit that organizational politics hinder creativity by discouraging employees from attending to work-related issues and expressing their prohibitive voice. Moreover, this suppressive effect is less pronounced among employees with higher creative self-efficacy or attentiveness. Our findings, derived from a multi-wave, multi-source field survey, reveal that organizational politics indirectly undermined creativity by negatively impacting prohibitive voice (even after controlling for other confounding mediating mechanisms). Additionally, we find that creative self-efficacy and attentiveness mitigate the adverse effect of organizational politics on prohibitive voice and subsequent creativity, respectively. These insights illuminate the reasons for reduced creativity within political environments and identify which employees are more or less vulnerable to these effects, providing valuable guidance for managers seeking to manage employee creativity within highly politicized organizations effectively.</p>