科研管理 ›› 2020, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (10): 72-80.

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失败视角下变革型领导对员工创造力的影响

卢艳秋,庞立君,王向阳   

  1. 吉林大学 管理学院,吉林 长春130022
  • 收稿日期:2017-10-23 修回日期:2018-06-30 出版日期:2020-10-20 发布日期:2020-10-19
  • 通讯作者: 庞立君
  • 基金资助:
     国家自然科学基金项目:“失败学习形成机制及其对后续创新绩效的影响研究:基于复杂产品创新失败”(71902045)。

A research on the impact of transformational leadership on employee creativity from the failure perspective

 Lu Yanqiu, Pang Lijun, Wang Xiangyang   

  1.  Management School, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, Jilin, China
  • Received:2017-10-23 Revised:2018-06-30 Online:2020-10-20 Published:2020-10-19
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摘要: 基于失败视角,本文运用社会信息加工理论,探究变革型领导对员工创造力的跨层次影响及团队失败共享信念和员工归属感在其中的作用,对60个团队中302对领导—员工配对数据进行分析,得到结论:变革型领导对员工创造力具有显著的跨层次正向影响,且对团队失败共享信念具有显著的正向影响;团队失败共享信念在变革型领导与员工创造力关系之间起到跨层次中介作用;员工归属感在团队失败共享信念与员工创造力关系之间起到正向调节作用。

 

关键词: 变革型领导, 团队失败共享信念, 员工归属感, 员工创造力, 失败情境

Abstract:

Employees consist of the basic component unit of the enterprise,whose creativity is the power source of the enterprise′s continuous innovation. And teams have been widely adopted by enterprises as an effective way to give full play to employee creativity. The risk of innovation makes the tempering of employee creativity in the team often coexist with failure. As an effective way of leadership,transformational leadership influences the formation mechanism of employee creativity through group factors,which has become the focus of the theoretical realm. Social information processing theory believes that the behavioral clues of important others in the environment will firstly affect the formation of shared norms,ideas and values of group members,and then individual attitudes and behaviors will be affected as well. Transformational leaders in the team always have a strong personality charm,whose words and deeds often offer important external clues for team members to form shared perceptions,in other words,shared belief about failure. And such kind of belief could guide the team members confront failures from positively view,then learn from the failures,thus to enhance creativity.
On the basis of failure perspective,social information processing theory is applied to explore the cross-level influence of transformational leadership on the employee creativity,as well as the mediating effect of shared belief about failure and the moderating effect of employee′s sense of belonging.Data of 302 leader-employee groups in 60 teams have been obtained to make analysis and the results show that (1) There is a significant positive cross-level influence of transformational leadership on the employee creativity,also the same on shared belief about failure;(2) Shared belief about failure has a cross-level mediating effect on the relations of transformational leadership and the employee creativity;and (3) Employee′s sense of belonging has a positive moderating effect on the relationship between shared belief about failure and employee creativity.
With incorporating transformational leadership, shared beliefs about failure, and employee creativity into one analysis framework, this paper establishes connections among leadership theory, failure learning theory as well as creativity theory, expanding the existing research on the influence mechanism and multi-contextualization of transformational leadership on employee creativity, deepening the insight into the boundary conditions of transformational leadership′s influence on employee creativity in the meanwhile. The practical implications of this paper are as follows: firstly, enterprises should focus on cultivating team leaders with a spirit of change,and improve managers′ business capabilities,vision building capabilities,as well as innovation awareness by means of comprehensive and systematic training. In addition,particular attention should be paid to whether the candidate has the above-mentioned abilities and characteristics in the leadership selection process. Secondly,in the process of enhancing the creativity of employees,leaders should pay enough attention to the shared belief about failure by instilling "positive energy" such as exploitation and innovation,being fearless when encountering with difficulty,etc. into the team,establishing a correct concept of failure to improve employee creativity through continuous learning. Thirdly, leaders should always pay attention to employees′ understanding and participation in team activities,and enhance employees′ sense of belonging by creating a "team-like home" atmosphere as well as constructing mechanisms of team interaction and mutual respect,thus to enhance employee creativity.

Key words: transformational leadership;shared beliefs about failure;employee&prime, s sense of belonging;employee creativity;failure context

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