Is Perceived Creativity‐Reward Contingency Good for Creativity? The Role of Challenge and Threat Appraisals

To address the complex effect of perceived reward for creativity on creative performance, we examined the role of cognitive appraisal as an individual difference variable. An individual's appraisal of reward for creativity, including challenge appraisal (perceived potential for recognition, growth, or mastery) and threat appraisal (perceived potential for revealing incompetence and damaging self‐respect), is hypothesized to shape the effects of perceived reward for creativity. We further expect creativity‐related intrinsic motivation to play a mediating role in the perceived reward‐creativity relationship. The results of a three‐wave field study showed that when challenge appraisal was high, perceived reward was positively related to creative performance through creativity‐related intrinsic motivation, whereas when threat appraisal was high, perceived reward was negatively related to creative performance through creativity‐related intrinsic motivation. A similar analysis showed that intrinsic task motivation was not able to channel the moderating effect of perceived reward and individual appraisal on creative performance. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

The role of reward omission in empowering leadership and employee outcomes: A moderated mediation model

In this study, we examined the relationships between empowering leadership employee outcomes (creativity and job performance) and the mediating (voice behaviour and taking charge) and moderating (reward omission) variables in these relationships. Our theoretical model was tested using the data collected from 197 full‐time employees and 32 supervisors. Analyses of the multisource data indicated that empowering leadership is linked to subordinates' job performance and creativity through subordinates' taking charge and voice behaviour as intermediate variables. However, the indirect relationship exists only when leaders display high levels of reward omission. Our research addressed a specific gap in understanding the boundary conditions for empowering leadership to be effective. We conclude with theoretical and practical implications of our findings as well as future research directions.     

论创造力与智力的关系

关于创造力和智力的关系,学术界至今还未形成统一结论,且主要是通过分析创造力与智商高低二者的关系,来分析创造利于智力的关系,国外的相关的实验也主要集中在这方面。本文试图从总体上,智商高低以及智力结构三个方面,来分析探讨创造力与智力的关系。     

团队氛围对个体创造力与团队创造力的影响

本文基于前人相关研究成果,提出了团队氛围、个体创造力与团队创造力之间关系的理论假设,继而运用结构方程建模的方法对这些假设进行了检验。研究结果表明,团队氛围对个体创造力有显著影响,对团队创造力有间接影响,个体创造力与团队创造力正相关。     

The distinctiveness of the European tradition in entrepreneurship research

Several previous studies have investigated creativity as an enhancer of innovation, their results showing that there is a positive relationship between the organizational creative climate and innovation. However, no research has been conducted on whether there is a saturation point beyond which an increase in creativity makes innovation performance decrease. In this article, we question the traditional positive relationship between creativity and innovation, and suggest that such a relationship is not linear, but has instead an inverted U-shape due to a saturation effect. We have developed a conceptual model to explain innovation performance considering creativity and network centrality, and it has been tested in the ceramic industrial cluster in Spain. Empirical findings support the inverted U-shaped relationship between creativity and innovation. The implications of these results in relation to creativity and innovation theory and practices are discussed.     

Coupling High Self-Perceived Creativity and Successful Newcomer Adjustment in Organizations: The Role of Supervisor Trust and Support for Authentic Self-Expression

This study addresses how supervisors can facilitate the socialization of newcomers with high self-perceived creativity into their new jobs. We combine self-verification theory and current literature on socialization in a dual-stage moderated mediation model where a) newcomer self-perceived creativity interacts with supervisor trust in the newcomer to trigger supervisor perception of newcomer creativity; and b) supervisor perception of newcomer creativity, in turn, interacts with supervisor support for newcomer authentic self-expression to impact newcomer adjustment outcomes (i.e., task performance, job satisfaction, and stress symptoms). A two-wave, multisource study of 146 newcomer–supervisor dyads provides support for our predictions, suggesting that high levels of supervisor trust and support for authentic self-expression serve as moderating conditions allowing supervisor perception of newcomer creativity to positively mediate the relationship between newcomer self-perceived creativity and newcomer adjustment.     

论变革型领导对员工创造力的影响

员工创造力是企业创新的基础与源泉,它是员工的个性品质、认知能力等内在因素和工作情境因素的特殊综合。在激发员工创造力的过程中,变革型领导通过员工的内在动机、对工作环境特别是对创新支持环境的感知、心理授权等中介变量的作用来影响追随者的创造性。在现实的管理情境中,可以通过对领导者进行变革型领导培训,通过选聘、培训、薪酬等管理方式筛选与培养高创造力的员工。     

Task Conflict and Employee Creativity: The Critical Roles of Learning Orientation and Goal Congruence

We add to human resource literature by investigating how the contribution of task conflict to employee creativity depends on employees’ learning orientation and their goal congruence with organizational peers. We postulate a positive relationship between task conflict and employee creativity and predict that this relationship is augmented by learning orientation but attenuated by goal congruence. We also argue that the mitigating effect of goal congruence is more salient among employees who exhibit a low learning orientation. Our results, captured from employees and their supervisors in a large, Mexican‐based organization, confirm these hypotheses. The findings have important implications for human resource managers who seek to foster creativity among employees. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Creativity and social alienation: the costs of being creative

Although creativity is a widely praised merit, the psychological costs that an employee may pay for being creative are less examined. The present study advances the research paradigm on the dark side of creativity by focusing on the negative psychological state (social alienation) of creative employees. By building on the studies on the homophily principle and on the cultural perspective of creativity, we investigated why creative employees are more likely to experience social alienation. Drawing on the social capital theory, we point out that social alienation of creative employees depends on their networking ability and harmony enhancement motive. A two-wave survey among 311 employees from 59 Chinese organizations supported the hypotheses. Implications of the findings are discussed for creativity and alienation literature as well as management practice.     

Leader creativity expectations motivate employee creativity: a moderated mediation examination

This study presents a moderated mediation model of leader creativity expectations to investigate the effects of leader creativity expectations on employee creativity. Using matched data from 255 employees and their supervisors in the R&D center of an automotive company in China, we found that creative self-efficacy mediated the positive relationship between leader creativity expectations and employee creativity. By integrating social cognitive theory and the interactionist perspective, we further identified job involvement and job autonomy as personal and situational moderators in the relationship between leader creativity expectations and employee creative self-efficacy. As the level of job involvement and job autonomy rose, the relationship between leader creativity expectations and employee creative self-efficacy was stronger. Furthermore, we also found job involvement served as a moderator in the mediational chain for the path from leader creativity expectations to employee creativity via creative self-efficacy. We discuss the theoretical contributions and practical implications for human resource management.     

High‐performance work systems and creativity implementation: the role of psychological capital and psychological safety

Unimplemented creative ideas are potentially wasted opportunities for organisations. Although it is largely understood how to encourage creativity among employees, how to ensure this creativity is implemented remains underexplored. The objective of the current study is to identify the underlying mechanisms that explain the relationship between high‐performance work systems and creativity implementation. Drawing from the job demands–resources model, we explore a model of psychological capital and psychological safety as mediators in the relationship between high‐performance work systems and creativity implementation. Based on 505 employee survey responses, the findings show support for the mediating relationships, highlighting the importance of psychological mechanisms. The study has important implications for HRM, uncovering how people management practices can encourage creativity implementation in the workplace.     

在体育教育中应如何培养学生的创造力和创造思维

通过对学校体育课程改革的调查、研究,探索创造力与体育教育之间的内在关系,提出培养学生的创造力和创造思维应是当代体育教育所追求的目标。     

Does pay for individual performance truly undermine employee creativity? The different moderating roles of vertical and horizontal collectivist orientations

The extant literature has generated inconclusive findings concerning the effect of pay for individual performance (PFIP) on creativity. Supplementing self-determination theory with compensation-activation theory, we theorized and tested the moderating roles of individual cultural values of vertical and horizontal collectivist orientations on the relationship between PFIP and employee creativity as mediated by intrinsic motivation. The empirical results of two field studies provided convergent support for the intrinsic motivation mechanism underlying the positive relationship between PFIP and employee creativity among individuals with high vertical (but not horizontal) collectivist orientations. These findings highlight the importance of considering individual differences in cultural values in understanding how extrinsic rewards affect creativity.     

Leader–member exchange and follower creativity: the moderating roles of leader and follower expectations for creativity

We examined leader and follower expectations for creativity as moderators in the relationship between leader–member exchange (LMX) and follower creativity. The results of a survey among 193 leader–follower dyads from two high-tech companies in mainland China show that LMX positively relates to follower creativity, and that leader and follower expectations for creativity moderate this relationship. Specifically, the relationship between LMX and follower creativity is positive and significant when either leaders or followers, or both leaders and followers, set high rather than low expectations for creativity, with the highest level of follower creativity observed when leaders and followers congruently hold high creativity expectations. In contrast, the LMX–follower creativity relationship is blurred when leaders and followers congruently hold low expectations for creativity. We discuss the relevance of these results from theoretical and professional perspectives.     

高校英语专业学生创新能力培养

非凡的创造力和创新精神是知识经济时代前进的重要推动力,高等院校是人才培养基地,培养在校大学生创新能力成为高等教育肩负的重要使命和时代要求,据此,文章提出了英语专业学生创新能力的培养途径和培养保障措施。     

工作与家庭支持对员工创造力的影响

由于现代社会发展极快,所以需要现代企业不断调整与改革。在这种情况下,社会各界开始注重员工的创造力,并将创造力作为人资管理的重点内容。基于此,论文针对工作与家庭支持对员工创造力的影响展开全面探究。     

提高知识员工创新力的工作再设计策略

由美国次贷危机引发的金融危机对我国企业的不利影响逐步显现,知识员工创造力是组织创新发展的重要来源,被越来越多的企业所重视。     

首钢发展文化创意产业的思考

本文分析了国内外文化创意的产业发展状况,首钢搬迁调整为其发展文化创意产业提供的机遇和优势及其发展文化创意产业的外部环境,从功能定位、发展重点以及主要措施等方面,提出了首钢发展文化创意产业的基本思路。     

非理性的创造力——浅谈动漫教学中学生创造力的培养

中国的动漫教学受到动漫产业发展热潮的影响而迅速的膨胀和发展,随着我国各类动漫院校动漫专业的设立。各种教学中急需解决的问题正在不断显露。本文就高职动漫教学中的学生非理性创造力的培养做一些探析,分析非理性创造力培养的重要意义和途径。     

悖论思维对创造力的“过犹不及”效应研究

悖论思维帮助个体发现对立事物间的联系,有利于创造性想法或创意的生成,但过高水平的悖论思维极易导致认知过载,使个体无暇顾及需要想象力和灵感的创造性活动。基于"过犹不及效应",本文提出悖论思维对员工创造力产生非线性影响。同时,根据能力-动机-机会(AMO)的理论框架,探索个人学习能力在这一关系中的中介作用,以及领导调节聚焦行为的调节作用。本文认为:悖论思维与员工创造力呈倒U型关系,个人学习能力在上述关系中起中介传导作用,领导促进型聚焦行为强化了变量间的间接关系,而领导防御型聚焦行为削弱了变量间的间接关系。通过对313名员工的三阶段调查分析,数据支持了本研究提出的假设。虽然适度的悖论思维有助于员工提升学习能力,但过度的悖论思维反而会降低员工学习效率进而削弱员工创造力,领导调节聚焦行为决定了员工是否能完成学习能力到创造力的转化。研究结论为员工创造力的影响因素研究提供了新思路,引导企业通过甄选员工和调整领导行为来激发员工创造力。