领导-下属批判性思维一致性如何影响创造性问题解决？链式中介与创造性工作要求的干预效应

摘要/Abstract

摘要： 批判性思维是认知谱系的基本维度，被认为是提升下属创造性产出最具辨识度的标签。然而，以往研究忽略了“领导-下属”批判性思维不同组合对下属创造性问题解决的差异化影响及其内部机理。为了弥补这些遗漏并全面揭示思维交联驱动下的相异诉求，本文以认知一致性理论为上位理论，联合工作要求-资源理论，从领导-下属匹配的视角，建立探索行为和资源获取通过下属批判性思维与领导批判性思维作用于创造性问题解决的链式中介模型，细致地刻画出创造性工作要求在该模型中的调节作用。应用多项式回归和响应面分析技术，采用多来源时间滞后的设计来减少共同方法偏差，通过对两个时点269份上下级配对数据分析发现：领导批判性思维与下属批判性思维一致性越高，下属探索行为越明显；相比在高领导批判性思维与低下属批判性思维情形下，在低领导批判性思维与高下属批判性思维情形下，下属探索行为未显示明显增强；领导批判性思维与下属批判性思维的一致通过探索行为和资源获取的链式中介影响创造性问题解决；创造性工作要求在资源获取与创造性问题解决的关系间起调节作用，进一步，其对领导批判性思维与下属批判性思维的一致通过探索行为和资源获取的链式中介具有条件约束效应。本文窥见并细化领导-下属批判性思维不同组合作用于创造性问题解决的潜在机制，为领导与下属交织在一起驱动员工创造性行为提供更多的解释路径，为员工探索行为和创造性问题解决提供新颖的启示。

关键词: 领导批判性思维, 下属批判性思维, 探索行为, 资源获取, 创造性工作要求, 创造性问题解决

Abstract: Critical thinking is a basic dimension of the cognitive spectrum and is considered to be the most recognizable label for improving the creative output of subordinates. However, previous studies have ignored the differential effects and internal mechanisms of different combinations of “leader-subordinate” critical thinking on subordinates’ creative problem-solving. In order to gain a lasting competitive advantage in this “innovation-driven” context, we need to re-understand critical thinking and the constructive role it generates. Because critical thinking is not isolated from the field of Chinese organization and management. On the contrary, it provides certain annotations for individual behavior. In this sense, taking its essence, insight and glow the influence of critical thinking on individual behavior is different from the past, which has certain theoretical value and practical enlightenment. In order to remedy these deficiencies and fully reveal the different demands driven by cross-linking of thought, this paper takes the cognitive consistency theory as the upper theory by introducing the perspective of leader-subordinate matching, establishes a chain mediation model in which exploration behavior and resource acquisition act on subordinates’ creative problem-solving through subordinates’ critical thinking and leaders’ critical thinking, and describes in detail the moderating role of creative work requirements in this model. Based on the job demand-resource theory, this paper reveals the conditional intervention mechanism of creative work requirements in the process of improving creative problem-solving, responds to the situational differences generated by creative results, and provides further empirical support for high-quality improvement of creative problem-solving and accumulates local evidence. Polynomial regression and response surface analysis techniques are applied, a multi-source time lag is designed to reduce common method bias, by analyzing 269 leaders and employees paired data at two time points. It is found that: the higher the consistency between the leader’s critical thinking and the subordinate’s critical thinking, the higher the subordinate’s exploratory behavior. Compared with the situation of “high leader critical thinking and low subordinate critical thinking”, the exploration behavior of subordinates is not significantly increased in the case of “low leader critical thinking and high subordinate critical thinking”. The consistency of critical thinking between leaders and subordinates influences creative problem-solving through the chain mediation of exploration behavior and resource acquisition. Job creativity requirement plays a moderating role in the relationship between resource acquisition and creative problem-solving, and further, it has a conditional effect on the consistency of critical thinking between leaders and subordinates through the chain mediation of exploration behavior and resource acquisition. This paper explores and details the potential mechanism of how different combinations of leader-subordinate critical thinking influence creative problem-solving, provides more explanation paths for the intertwine drive of leadership and subordinates, and provides inspiration for the innovative competition of employee exploration behavior and creative problem-solving.

Key words: leader critical thinking, subordinate critical thinking, exploration behaviors, resource acquisition, job creativity requirement, creative problem-solving

屠兴勇, 张巧, 董雅楠, 江静, 杨百寅. 领导-下属批判性思维一致性如何影响创造性问题解决？链式中介与创造性工作要求的干预效应[J]. 管理评论, 2025, 37(4): 142-155.

Tu Xingyong, Zhang Qiao, Dong Yanan, Jiang Jing, Yang Baiyin. How can Leader-Subordinate Critical Thinking Congruence Affect Creative Problem-solving? Chain Mediation and the Intervention Effect of Job Creativity Requirement[J]. Management Review, 2025, 37(4): 142-155.

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