When leader-member exchange promotes employee creativity

Author

Qu, Rujie ; Gao, Li ; Shi, Kan

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Grad. Univ. of Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China

Volume

3

fYear

2012

fDate

20-21 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

194

Lastpage

197

Abstract

This study addresses the question of when Leader-member exchange (LMX) in the workplace fosters employee creativity. The study tested followers´ organization-based self-esteem as moderator of relationship between LMX and follower creativity. Based on LMX and self-concept theory, we hypothesized that LMX would be positively related to follower creativity and this association would be moderated by followers´ organization-based self-esteem. We used a sample of 206 employees nested in 68 teams from 3 high-tech enterprises in mainland China. The results showed that LMX was positively related to follower creativity. Furthermore, LMX related more strongly and positively to creativity for followers higher rather than lower in organization-based self-esteem.

Keywords

human resource management; industrial psychology; personnel; employee creativity; follower creativity; high-tech enterprise; leader-member exchange; mainland China; organization-based self-esteem; relationship moderator; self-concept theory; workplace; Atmospheric measurements; Correlation; Educational institutions; Lead; Organizations; Particle measurements; Standards; Leader-member exchange; follower creativity; organization-based self-esteem;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering (ICIII), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sanya

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1932-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIII.2012.6339953

Filename

6339953