Creative Benefits From Well-Connected Leaders: Leader Social Network Ties as Facilitators of Employee Radical Creativity

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Venkataramani, Vijaya; Richter, Andreas W.; Clarke, Ronald
• 署名单位: University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Cambridge; IE University; University of Valencia
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0037088
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 966-975
• 关键词: employee radical creativity; social networks; leadership; teams

摘要

Employee radical creativity critically depends on substantive informational resources from others across the wider organization. We propose that the social network ties of employees' immediate leaders assume a central role in garnering these resources, thereby fostering their employees' radical creativity both independent of and interactively with employees' own network ties. Drawing on data from 214 employees working in 30 teams of a public technology and environmental services organization, we find that team leaders' betweenness centrality in the idea network within their teams as well as among their peer leaders provides creative benefits beyond employees' own internal and external ties. Further, employees' and leaders' ties within and external to the team interactively predict employee radical creativity. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.