When is educational specialization heterogeneity related to creativity in research and development teams? Transformational leadership as a moderator

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Shin, Shung J.; Zhou, Jing
• 署名单位: Washington State University; Rice University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.92.6.1709
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 1709-1721
• 关键词: team creativity; educational specialization heterogeneity (or diversity); transformational leadership; team creative efficacy

摘要

The authors examined conditions under which teams' educational specialization heterogeneity was positively related to team creativity. Using a sample of 75 research and development teams, the authors theorized and found that transformational leadership and educational specialization heterogeneity interacted to affect team creativity in such a way that when transformational leadership was high, teams with greater educational specialization heterogeneity exhibited greater team creativity. In addition, teams' creative efficacy mediated this moderated relationship among educational specialization heterogeneity, transformational leadership, and team creativity. The authors discuss the implications of these results for research and practice.