Cao Yi, Zhou Keqiucheng, Wang Yijiang, Hou Yubo, Miao Rentao
School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jun 5;14:1162790. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1162790. eCollection 2023.
Creativity is a primary factor in driving transformational change. This study explored the impact of leader humor on employee creativity (incremental and radical creativity) from the perspective of employee voice. Data were collected from 812 Chinese employees through multipoint surveys. Through the surveys, we found that (1) leader humor has a significant positive effect on employee incremental and radical creativity; (2) promotive/prohibitive voice mediates the relationship between leader humor and employee incremental/radical creativity separately; (3) contradictory thinking moderates the effect of leader humor on prohibitive voice and further moderates the indirect effect of leader humor on radical creativity; and (4) the moderated mediation model mainly applies to state-owned enterprises rather than private-owned enterprises. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.
创造力是推动变革性变革的主要因素。本研究从员工建言的角度探讨了领导幽默对员工创造力（渐进式和激进式创造力）的影响。通过多点调查收集了812名中国员工的数据。通过调查，我们发现：（1）领导幽默对员工渐进式和激进式创造力有显著的正向影响；（2）促进性/禁止性建言分别在领导幽默与员工渐进式/激进式创造力之间起中介作用；（3）矛盾性思维调节领导幽默对禁止性建言的影响，并进一步调节领导幽默对激进式创造力的间接影响；（4）有调节的中介模型主要适用于国有企业而非民营企业。讨论了这些发现的理论和实践意义。
