Abstract: In recent years, destructive impacts of abusive supervision in workplace have become a concern in both academic circle and practice, and will affect the process of team interaction and team performance to some extent. However, research on how abusive supervision affects team creativity is relatively lacking, so it is necessary to reveal the inherent mechanism of abusive supervision through empirical research. This paper conducts a questionnaire survey to 61 teams, and obtains 52 sets of valid team data. The empirical study shows that abusive supervision negatively affects team creativity; error aversion climate negatively affects team creativity and mediates the relationship between abusive supervision and team creativity; team prevention regulatory focus not only significantly moderates the relationship between error aversion climate and team creativity, but also moderates the mediating effect of error aversion climate between abusive supervision and team creativity, while the moderation effect of team promotion regulatory focus is not significant. The results not only enrich the theoretical research on team leaders and team creativity, but also provide a new thought for organizations to control and prevent the harm of abusive supervision and to enhance team creativity.

Key words: abusive supervision, error aversion climate, team regulatory focus, team creativity