Humble Leadership, Psychological Safety, Knowledge Sharing, and Follower Creativity: A Cross-Level Investigation

Frontiers in Psychology

卷:9

Jieqiong Liu¹  Yanfei Wang¹  Yu Zhu² 

[1] School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China;

[2] School of Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China;

关键词: humble leadership;    psychological safety;    social information processing;    knowledge sharing;    follower creativity;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01727

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The leadership literature has provided growing evidence regarding the power of leadership in facilitating follower creativity. Despite these advances, a noticeable omission in this body of research is humble leadership. The study extends previous research by developing a cross-level moderated mediation model and examining the roles that psychological safety and knowledge sharing may play in the relationship between humble leadership and follower creativity. Using a time-lagged data of 328 team members nested within 106 teams, the results show that: (a) psychological safety mediates the relationship between humble leadership and follower creativity; (b) knowledge sharing moderates the relationship between psychological safety and follower creativity; and (c) the indirect influence of humble leadership on follower creativity through psychological safety is stronger when knowledge sharing is high.

【 授权许可】

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