管理评论 ›› 2023, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (6): 193-204.

• 组织行为与人力资源管理 • 上一篇    下一篇

独特性需求对员工突破性和渐进性创造力的影响

许玉平1, 严荣笑2, 刘智强1, 程欢1, 卫利华1   

  1. 1. 华中科技大学管理学院, 武汉 430074;
    2. 华中科技大学公共管理学院, 武汉 430074
  • 收稿日期:2021-10-12 发布日期:2023-07-27
  • 通讯作者: 卫利华(通讯作者),华中科技大学管理学院博士研究生。
  • 作者简介:许玉平,华中科技大学管理学院博士研究生;严荣笑,华中科技大学公共管理学院博士研究生;刘智强,华中科技大学管理学院教授,博士生导师,博士;程欢,华中科技大学管理学院博士研究生。
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金重点项目(71832004);教育部哲学社会科学研究重大课题攻关项目(21JZD056)。

The Impact of Need for Uniqueness on Employees' Radical and Incremental Creativity

Xu Yuping1, Yan Rongxiao2, Liu Zhiqiang1, Cheng Huan1, Wei Lihua1   

  1. 1. School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074;
    2. College of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074
  • Received:2021-10-12 Published:2023-07-27

摘要: 基于独特性理论,本研究考察了独特性需求对员工突破性创造力和渐进性创造力的差异化影响,并检验了越轨创新和包容型领导在以上关系中所起的中介与调节作用。通过对337对上下级匹配数据进行分析发现,独特性需求对员工突破性和渐进性创造力均具有正向影响,但是相比渐进性创造力,独特性需求对突破性创造力的影响更强。另外,越轨创新中介了独特性需求与员工突破性、渐进性创造力之间的关系,不过相比渐进性创造力,独特性需求通过越轨创新对突破性创造力产生了更强的影响。包容型领导调节独特性需求与越轨创新之间的关系,即领导包容性越高,独特性需求通过越轨创新对员工突破性、渐进性创造力的影响越强。同样地,相比渐进性创造力,独特性需求对突破性创造力的有条件的间接影响更强。

关键词: 独特性需求, 越轨创新, 包容型领导, 突破性创造力, 渐进性创造力

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the differential impacts of need for uniqueness (NFU) on employees' radical versus incremental creativity. Based on uniqueness theory, we argue that employees with high NFU are likely to demonstrate more radical than incremental creativity. In a field study using data collected from 337 dyads of employees and their immediate supervisors, we find that NFU is significantly and positively related to employees' radical and incremental creativity. NFU has a stronger positive relationship with employees' radical creativity than with employees' incremental creativity. Creative deviance is a key mechanism that enables employees with high NFU to exhibit radical and incremental creativity. The influence of NFU on employees' radical creativity through creative deviance is stronger than that of NFU on employees' incremental creativity through creative deviance. Inclusive leadership moderates the positive relationship between NFU and creative deviance and enhances the positive indirect effect of NFU on employee radical and incremental creativity. The conditional indirect relationship between NFU and employee radical creativity is significantly greater than the conditional indirect relationship between NFU and employee incremental creativity. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Key words: need for uniqueness, creative deviance, inclusive leadership, radical creativity, icremental creativity