CAJ | 학술논문

员工创造力是企业创新的微观基础,而已有文献还未能深入地探讨在中国情境下领导-部属交换如何有效地激发员工创造力.本文通过问卷调查和分析本土企业管理者及其直接下属的配对样本,将内在动机和内部人身份认知作为中介变量,构建并验证了领导-部属交换与员工创造力的关系.结构方程建模分析的结果表明,领导-部属交换对员工创造力有显著的正向影响,内在动机和内部人身份认知在领导-部属交换影响员工创造力的过程中起完全中介作用.
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In the face of increasingly turbulent environments,heightened competition,and unpredictable technological change,an increasing number of managers are encouraging their employees to be creative in order to help their companies compete with competitors.Many studies have shown that employee creativity can fundamentally contribute to organizational innovation,effectiveness,and survival.Creativity refers to the development of novel and useful ideas about products,practices,services,or procedures.Employee creativity can be fostered at any level of an organization.Although a number of studies have investigated the impact of leaders on creativity,they have largely focused on issues of transformational leadership,empowering leadership,and leader support.Evidence regarding the mechanisms between leader-member exchange and employee creativity remains inconclusive and underdeveloped.In order to build a model linking leader-member exchange and creativity,we conducted literature review on intrinsic motivation and self-conception.In addition,we identified two factors,including intrinsic motivation and perceived insider status that could potentially mediate the relationship between leader-member exchange and creativity.Intrinsic motivation refers to the extent to which an individual is excited about work activity and engages in it for the sake of the activity itself.Scholars have long argued that individuals are likely to be creative when they experience high levels of intrinsic motivation because motivation increases their tendency to be curious,cognitively flexible,risk taking,and persistent in the face of barriers.All of these characteristics should facilitate the development of creative ideas.We further explored the extent to which leadermember exchange works through intrinsic motivation to ultimately influence employee creativity.The effect of intrinsic motivation on creativity has mixed results in previous studies.To unveil the mechanisms that increase creativity,we posit that perceived insider status,which refers to the extent to which an employee perceives him/herself as an organizational insider,could also have effect and should be considered.Recent researches indicate that there is a positive relationship between perceived insider status and employee creativity.Drawing on a self-conception perspective on creativity,our study extends the existing creativity research by not only theorizing that intrinsic motivation may uniquely cultivate employee creativity,but also elucidating that the perceived insider status drives employee creativity.We used 234 supervisor-subordinate dyads samples in China to examine the mediating effect of intrinsic motivation and perceived insider status on the relationship between leader-member exchange and employee creativity.The structural equation model analysis showed that leader-member exchange has significantly positive impact on employee creativity.Intrinsic motivation and perceived insider status can significantly mediate leader-member exchange＇s influence on employee creativity.Finally,we discuss theoretical contributions,practical implications,and future research directions.