SELF-REGULATION OF CREATIVITY AT WORK: THE ROLE OF FEEDBACK-SEEKING BEHAVIOR IN CREATIVE PERFORMANCE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: De Stobbeleir, Katleen E. M.; Ashford, Susan J.; Buyens, Dirk
• 署名单位: Vlerick Business School; KU Leuven; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Ghent University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/AMJ.2011.64870144
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 811-831
• 关键词: KIRTON ADAPTION-INNOVATION; LEADER-MEMBER EXCHANGE; PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT; EMPLOYEE CREATIVITY; COGNITIVE-STYLE; transformational leadership; Impression management; INFORMATION-SEEKING; GOAL ORIENTATION; strategies

摘要

Using 456 supervisor-employee dyads from four organizations, this study examined how employees use one proactive behavior, feedback seeking, as a strategy to enhance their creative performance. As hypothesized, employees' cognitive style and perceived organizational support for creativity affected two patterns of feedback seeking: the propensity to inquire for feedback and the propensity to monitor the environment for indirect feedback. Feedback inquiry related to supervisor ratings of employee creative performance. These results highlight the importance of employees' self-regulatory behaviors in the creative process and show that feedback seeking is not only a strategy that facilitates individual adaptation, but also a resource for achieving creative outcomes.