LINKING EMPOWERING LEADERSHIP AND EMPLOYEE CREATIVITY: THE INFLUENCE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EMPOWERMENT, INTRINSIC MOTIVATION, AND CREATIVE PROCESS ENGAGEMENT

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Zhang, Xiaomeng; Bartol, Kathryn M.
• 署名单位: American University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/AMJ.2010.48037118
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 107-128
• 关键词: TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP; WORK-ENVIRONMENT; EMPIRICAL-EXAMINATION; EXPECTED EVALUATION; CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; MEMBER EXCHANGE; CULTURAL-VALUES; MEDIATING ROLE; MODEL; BEHAVIOR

摘要

Synthesizing theories of leadership, empowerment, and creativity, this research built and tested a theoretical model linking empowering leadership with creativity via several intervening variables. Using survey data from professional employees and their supervisors in a large information technology company in China, we found that, as anticipated, empowering leadership positively affected psychological empowerment, which in turn influenced both intrinsic motivation and creative process engagement. These latter two variables then had a positive influence on creativity. Empowerment role identity moderated the link between empowering leadership and psychological empowerment, whereas leader encouragement of creativity moderated the connection between psychological empowerment and creative process engagement.