变革型领导与员工创造力:压力的中介作用

科研管理 ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (8): 112-119.

变革型领导与员工创造力:压力的中介作用

蔡亚华¹, 贾良定², 万国光³

1．上海财经大学国际工商管理学院, 上海 200433;
2．南京大学商学院, 江苏南京 210093;
3．香港科技大学商学院, 香港

收稿日期:2013-06-03 修回日期:2014-10-13 出版日期:2015-08-25 发布日期:2015-08-19
作者简介:蔡亚华(1987-),男(汉),江苏盐城人,上海财经大学讲师,研究方向为组织行为与人力资源管理。
贾良定(1968-),男(汉),安徽合肥人,南京大学教授,研究方向为人力资源管理与战略管理。
万国光(1982-),男(汉),江西景德镇人,香港科技大学博士生,研究方向为战略管理。
基金资助:
国家自然科学基金重点项目"中国企业雇佣关系模式与人力资源管理创新研究"(71332002)起止时间:2014-2018;国家自然科学基金面上项目"制度环境、企业间网络与企业战略的互动机制:以乡镇企业集群为对象的研究"(71272109)起止时间:2013-2016。

Transformational leadership and employee creativity—The mediating role of pressure

Cai Yahua¹, Jia Liangding², Wan Guoguang³

1. School of International Business Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, China;
2. School of Business, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, Jiangsu, China;
3．School of Business, HongKong University of Science and Technology, HongKong, China

Received:2013-06-03 Revised:2014-10-13 Online:2015-08-25 Published:2015-08-19

摘要/Abstract

摘要： 领导对员工创造力的影响是组织管理研究的一个重要议题。现有研究从不同视角提供变革型领导促进员工创造力的可能理论解释,但实证结果却不一致。本文试图通过发现变革型领导的"阴暗面"来解决理论和实证结果之间的不一致。具体地,本文探究不同形式的压力感知在变革型领导与员工创造力关系中所起的正向和负向中介作用:作为一种压力类型的挑战性工作起到正向中介作用,而作为另一种压力类型的负荷性压力产生了负向中介作用。采用来自65家企业的205个工作团队共905位员工的两时段测量样本,其随机系数模型的结果支持变革型领导通过影响员工负荷性压力感知来抑制员工创造力。当前文献集中于探讨变革型领导的"光明面"时,本文从"阴暗面"发展了现有理论。

关键词: 变革型领导, 创造力, 挑战性工作, 负荷性压力

Abstract: The influence of leadership in the employee creativity is an important topic for the organizational management research. The present research provides the possible theoretical explanations to the proposition that transformational leadership promotes the employee leadership, but the empirical results are inconsistent. In this paper, we try to identify the "dark side" of transformational leadership on creativity. By exploring the mediating role of pressure between transformational leadership and creativity, we find that challenging work, one type of pressure, mediates the positive relationship between transformational leadership and creativity; but more importantly, workload pressure as other type of pressure, mediates the negative relationship between transformational leadership and creativity. In a two-wave study of 905 employees nested in 205 work units from 65 high-technology firms in China, the random coefficient model results support the "dark side" view that transformational leadership may have impedimental effect on creativity through influencing workload pressure of followers. In a bunch of literature which extols favorable aspects of transformational leadership, our paper contributes to the research on dark side of transformational leadership.

Key words: transformational leadership, creativity, challenging work, workload pressure

中图分类号:

C933.2

蔡亚华, 贾良定, 万国光. 变革型领导与员工创造力:压力的中介作用[J]. 科研管理, 2015, 36(8): 112-119.

Cai Yahua, Jia Liangding, Wan Guoguang. Transformational leadership and employee creativity—The mediating role of pressure[J]. Science Research Management, 2015, 36(8): 112-119.

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