Proactive Personality and Employee Creativity: A Moderated Mediation Model of Multisource Information Exchange and LMX

Frontiers in Psychology

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Aishi Zhang¹  Xi Li²  Yuchen Guo³ 

[1] Business School, Nankai University;Key Lab for Behavioral Economic Science and Technology, South China Normal University;School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University

关键词: proactive personality;    incremental creativity;    radical creativity;    multisource information exchange;    leader-member exchange (LMX);    moderated mediation;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.552581

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Integrating the social perspective of creativity and the goal-regulatory process perspective of proactivity, this study investigates how proactive personality influences two forms of employee creativity-incremental creativity and radical creativity through multisource information exchange. Using a moderated mediation framework, this study suggests that leader-member exchange (LMX) moderates the positive association between proactive personality and those two forms of employee creativity. The results of this study, drawn from the sample of 500 employees and their immediate supervisors in a large state-owned company of China, support most of the hypotheses. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings, as well as the limitations of this study and the directions for future research, are discussed.

【 授权许可】

CC BY