LEADER PERFECTIONISM-FRIEND OR FOE OF EMPLOYEE CREATIVITY? LOCUS OF CONTROL AS A KEY CONTINGENCY

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Xu, Linna; Liu, Zhi; Ji, Ming; Dong, Yuntao; Wu, Chia-Huei
• 署名单位: Beihang University; Peking University; Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC); Peking University; University of Leeds
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2019.0165
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 2092-2117
• 关键词: SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; PARTICIPATIVE LEADERSHIP; CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR; ABUSIVE SUPERVISION; MEDIATING ROLE; DAILY STRESS; work; performance; self; engagement

摘要

This research aims to explain whether leader perfectionism toward employees fosters or hinders employee creativity. From a self-regulation perspective, we theorize that depend-ing on employees??? locus of control, leader perfectionism can influence two regulatory states of employees (i.e., engagement and emotional exhaustion) linearly or curvilinearly, which in turn affect their creativity in opposite directions. In a lab experiment and a mul-tisource, multiwave field study, we found that for internals, leader perfectionism had a curvilinear effect on their engagement (but no effect on emotional exhaustion) and subse-quent creativity such that the effect was positive but became weaker when leader perfec-tionism was extreme. By contrast, we found partial support across the two studies that for externals, leader perfectionism had a positive effect on their emotional exhaustion (but no effect on engagement), which undermined their creativity. We discuss the theoret-ical contributions of this research and its practical implications for organizations.