Wang Xiaohong, Wang Meng, Xu Feng
School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
School of Humanities, Social Sciences & Law, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Front Psychol. 2022 Jul 22;13:699411. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.699411. eCollection 2022.
This study investigates the interplay among proactive personality, leader creativity expectations, and role clarity in stimulating employee creativity based on the theoretical frameworks of role theory. Questionnaires were distributed to obtain 290 leader-employee dyads from China to examine hypotheses conditional process analysis. The results show that proactive personality has a positive effect on employee creativity, leader creativity expectations did not play a significant moderating role on the relationship between proactive personality and employee creativity. The interaction between leader creativity expectations and role clarity has a significant moderating effect on the relationship between proactive personality and employee creativity. These findings are discussed in terms of their theoretical and practical significance.
本研究基于角色理论的理论框架，探讨了积极主动型人格、领导者对创造力的期望和角色清晰度在激发员工创造力方面的相互作用。通过发放问卷，从中国获取了290对领导-员工二元组数据，以检验假设并进行条件过程分析。结果表明，积极主动型人格对员工创造力有积极影响，领导者对创造力的期望在积极主动型人格与员工创造力的关系中未发挥显著的调节作用。领导者对创造力的期望与角色清晰度之间的交互作用，对积极主动型人格与员工创造力的关系具有显著的调节作用。本文从理论和实践意义两方面对这些研究结果进行了讨论。
