When Teamwork Works: Examining the Relationship Between Leader-Member Exchange Differentiation and Team Creativity

Frontiers in Psychology

Psychology

Yahua Cai¹  Fufu Sun¹  Joseph Amankwah-Amoah²  Xinyue Lin³  Juan Du³ 

[1] Department of Human Resource Management, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China;Kent Business School, University of Kent, Chatham, United Kingdom;School of Business Management, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China;

关键词: team creativity;    team behavioral integration;    LMX differentiation;    team emotional intelligence;    social comparison theory;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.646514

 received in 2020-12-27, accepted in 2021-12-22,  发布年份 2022

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Drawing on team creativity literature and social comparison theory, we investigate how leader-member exchange (LMX) differentiation influences team creativity. Using a survey based on 91 R&D teams from Chinese companies, we observe that LMX differentiation is negatively related to team creativity (β = −0.35, p < 0.01). More importantly, we demonstrate that team behavioral integration mediates the relationship between LMX differentiation and team creativity (indirect effect size = −0.72, with 95% CI of −1.91, −0.13), and team emotional intelligence (TEI) moderates the relationship between LMX differentiation and team behavioral integration (β = 0.23, p < 0.05), such that LMX differentiation has a weaker negative influence on team behavioral integration when TEI is higher. These results provide relevant suggestions for organizational team building, management, and development.

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