Linking transformational leadership and employee creativity in the hospitality industry: The influences of creative role identity,creative self-efficacy,and job complexity

Integrating transformational leadership, creativity and social cognitive theories, we explore the relationships among transformational leadership, creative role identity, creative self-efficacy, job complexity and creativity. Structural equation modeling (SEM) with bootstrapping estimation was conducted using data from 395 supervisor–employee dyads from international tourist hotels in Taiwan. The results show that supervisors' transformational leadership positively influenced employee creative self-efficacy and creativity. Moreover, creative role identity was found to mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and employee creative self-efficacy, while both creative role identity and creative self-efficacy were found to mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and employee creativity. Specifically, job complexity was found to moderate the relationship between transformational leadership and employee creative role identity, the relationship between employee creative role identity and creative self-efficacy, and the relationship between employee creative self-efficacy and creativity. We discuss the implications of these results for research and practice in hospitality context.     

Linkages between creativity and intention to quit: An occupational study of chefs

Human resource issues persist as a vexation for tourism managers. Foodservice is a core component of many tourism destinations and attractions yet the foodservice labour market is historically volatile. This article reports on the findings of a job satisfaction survey of chefs working in Australia's tourism and hospitality industry. This study's aim is to determine empirically whether there is a positive relationship between creativity and job and occupational satisfaction. A customised instrument is designed to mitigate the shortcomings of generalising scale items and findings of generic job satisfaction surveys to a single occupation. This paper focuses on identifying a range of dimensions of job satisfaction and occupational attributes connected to creativity and its associated dimensions. Reliability and data reduction analyses were conducted to validate the construction of composite ‘creativity’ variables for the basis of further comparisons. The findings indicate that the sample ranks creativity more highly than working conditions and that there is a clear relationship between creativity and both organisational and occupational satisfaction. Results vary as a function of gender. In conclusion, theoretical and practical implications for occupational and tourism management are discussed.     

Work environment and atmosphere: The role of organizational support in the creativity performance of tourism and hospitality organizations

In this study, we developed and tested a new model of how organizational support affects the organizational work environment and atmosphere that facilitates creativity. A field study of 320 employees showed that organizational support was positively related to the work environment for knowledge sharing, motivation, procedural justice, and promotion. Further, the work environment plays a mediating role between organizational support and employee creativity. These measures of an organization's environment of procedural justice are related to employees’ motivation and knowledge sharing, which predict employees’ promotion.     

Performance measurement system use in generating psychological empowerment and individual creativity

Individual creativity is essential to an organisation's ability to innovate (Amabile, 1988, 1996), and potentially, management control systems could be used to enhance or constrain this creativity in organisations (Amabile, 1988; Davila et al., 2009). The purpose of this study is to develop an understanding of how interactive performance measurement system (IPMS) use is implicated in the generation of individual creativity. A conceptual framework linking IPMS use to creativity is developed, incorporating psychological empowerment as an intervening variable. The results of a survey of middle‐level managers confirm that IPMS use impacts on creativity through the psychological construct of psychological empowerment.     

基于多层次视角的创造力研究述评

当今时代对国家、企业组织的创新创造能力提出了更高的要求.创造力作为创新能力的一个重要组成部分,也受到了极大的关注.本文从团队和个人两个层次的研究视角,对创造力的概念、内涵进行明晰,辨析创新与创造力这两个相近概念.并从创造力的形成过程、作用机制、创造力的主观和客观测量方式、创造力的影响因素与影响效果等方面进行文献回顾,梳理学界对于创造力在以上几个方面的理论模型等研究成果,聚焦研究前沿,展望创造力领域的未来研究热点,同时指出目前该领域的研究中,还存在诸如对于个体层面创造力如何影响团队层面创造力等问题研究不充分的局限性.本文希望通过对创造力以上几个方面研究文献的梳理,对于该领域未来的研究有所贡献.     

中国设计教育的现状与发展

自从上世纪50～60年代设计教育从西方引进到中国,我们的设计教育领域已经在这几十年的时间里有了长足的发展。对于中国而言,这是个崭新而鲜活的领域。从近些年日渐发展的蓬勃生机我们不难看出它受欢迎的程度。然而发展的脚步越快,就越说明问题的出现也就越来越快。无论是在课程安排的合理性;学生创新培养的灵活性;还是教学内容的科学性上,我们的设计教育体系都存在着较大的发展空间。本文以服装设计教育为蓝本,从三个部分:教学的内容;课程的编排以及学生的培养上做了详细的阐述,力求在设计教育现状的轨迹上找寻出一条发展之路。     

关于提高基层党组织的创造力、凝聚力、战斗力的思考

党的基层组织是党的全部工作和战斗力的基础，是党联系群众的桥梁和纽带，是党的执政能力得以发挥的重要组织载体。提高党的执政能力，必须加强党的基层组织建设，努力提高基层党组织的创造力、凝聚力、战斗力。     

Authentic leadership promoting employees' psychological capital and creativity

Two hundred and one employees report their psychological capital, as well as their supervisors' authentic leadership. Supervisors describe the employees' creativity. The main findings show that authentic leadership predicts employees' creativity, both directly and through the mediating role of employees' psychological capital. The study empirically validates theoretical arguments that suggest integrating authentic leadership and psychological capital in research, and indicates that both may foster employees' creativity, a crucial resource for helping organizations to face competitive challenges, take advantage of business opportunities, and improve organizational effectiveness.     

北京创意指数指标体系构建探析

本文在分析比较国内外创意指数特点基础上,利用系统的方法,搭建了北京创意指数总体框架,构建了北京创意指数的具体指标,为进一步对北京创意指数进行实证研究奠定了基础。     

创业型领导对追随者创造力的影响

采用201位领导者-追随者调研数据,以组织支持理论为基础,从工作情境和非工作情境两条路径,分析创业型领导通过工作激情和心理脱离对追随者创造力的影响机理,同时探究内隐追随对两条路径的调节效应。结果表明：创业型领导对创造力有显著正向预测作用,工作激情与心理脱离在创业型领导和创造力之间起中介作用。内隐追随在创业型领导与工作激情的情境路径中,以及在创业型领导与心理脱离非工作情境路径中均起正向调节作用,同时,内隐追随也调节工作激情和心理脱离的中介效应。研究结果揭示了不同情境传导机制下,创业型领导对追随者创造力正向作用的一致性,也丰富了创业型领导个体层面后果变量研究。