管理评论 ›› 2022, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (7): 268-279.

• 组织行为与人力资源管理 • 上一篇    下一篇

领导幽默对团队创造力的影响研究

杨陈   

  1. 重庆理工大学管理学院, 重庆 400054
  • 收稿日期:2019-09-17 出版日期:2022-07-28 发布日期:2022-08-19
  • 作者简介:杨陈,重庆理工大学管理学院讲师,博士。
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金青年项目(71902015);重庆市教委科学技术研究项目(KJQN201901116);重庆理工大学科研启动基金资助项目(2019Z089)。

The Impact of Leader Humor on Team Creativity

Yang Chen   

  1. School of Management, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054
  • Received:2019-09-17 Online:2022-07-28 Published:2022-08-19

摘要: 作为新兴的领导行为,领导幽默能够对员工的态度和行为产生积极影响。然而,领导幽默如何影响团队创造力的研究鲜有学者涉及。基于此,文章从社会信息加工视角探讨了领导幽默影响团队创造力的路径机制和边界条件。对62个团队、354名团队成员的两阶段团队主管-团队成员匹配数据进行分析,结果发现:(1)领导幽默对团队创造力具有显著的正向影响;(2)团队玩兴氛围在领导幽默与团队创造力间发挥部分中介作用;(3)领导社会机敏性和团队传统性在领导幽默与团队玩兴氛围间具有调节作用,即领导社会机敏性水平越高或者团队传统性水平越低,领导幽默对团队玩兴氛围的积极影响越强;(4)领导社会机敏性对团队玩兴氛围在领导幽默与团队创造力间的中介作用具有调节效应,即存在被调节的中介。

关键词: 领导幽默, 团队玩兴氛围, 团队创造力, 领导社会机敏性, 团队传统性

Abstract: Leader humor (LH), a new leadership style, is one of the frontier subjects in the field of organization behavior study. Although researches on LH have yielded great insights into the effects of leaders on followers' attitudes and behaviors, the existing knowledge on LH's role in team creativity remains incomplete. Taking as the theoretical basis the theory of the social information process theory, this paper probes the mechanism of how LH influences team creativity. Results from a 2-phase analysis of 62 working teams show that LH is positively related to team creativity, and team playfulness climate mediates the relationship between LH and team creativity. In addition, group traditionality negatively moderated the relationship between LH and team playfulness climate, leader social astuteness positively moderates the relationship between LH and team playfulness climate. Furthermore, the indirect effect of LH on team creativity via team playfulness climate is stronger when leader social astuteness is much higher.

Key words: leader humor, team playfulness climate, team creativity, leader social astuteness, group traditionality