The influence of leader regulatory focus on employee creativity |
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Authors: | Cindy Wu Jeffery S McMullen Mitchell J Neubert Xiang Yi |
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Institution: | aHankamer School of Business, Baylor University, One Bear Place 98006, Waco, TX 76798-8006, USA;bCollege of Business and Technology, Western Illinois University, 1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455, USA |
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Abstract: | Brockner and Higgins (Brockner, J., Higgins, E. T. 2001. Regulatory focus theory: Implications for the study of emotions at work. Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, 86(1), 35–66.) suggest that a leader's behavior may be perceived as an organizational endorsement of promotion-focused or prevention-focused concerns and that this perception will influence employee behavior by eliciting a congruent state of regulatory focus. We tested this hypothesis using matched pairs of leaders and employees from a Chinese firm and found that employee creativity is positively associated with the promotion focus of the supervisor's behavior. Consequently, through their actions, promotion-focused leaders may increase the likelihood of entrepreneurial action in their firms by eliciting a promotion-focused state of eagerness from their employees. |
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Keywords: | Creativity Regulatory focus Leadership Role modeling Entrepreneurial action |
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