领导成员交换与员工创造力:情感机制的中介作用

Leader-Member Exchange and Employee Creativity:The Role of Affect

情感是员工创造力的重要前因,而已有文献结论存在不一致,且未深入地探讨影响员工情绪的组织情境因素。文章依据情感事件理论,分析和检验了领导成员交换、积极/消极情感与创造力的关系,以及组织创造力支持感的调节作用。通过分析442对主管-下属配对样本,结果表明:积极情感和消极情感在领导成员交换与创造力关系之间起部分中介作用;组织创造力支持感正向调节积极情感与创造力的关系,而对消极情感与创造力关系的负向调节作用不显著;最后,高的组织创造力支持感还调节积极/消极情感在领导成员交换与员工创造力关系间的中介作用。

Although affect has been considered to be an important antecedent to employee creativity, the extant findings are mixed, and the literature is inconsistent and unsystematic, and fails to explore the organizational determinants of the employee af- fect. Based on the affective events theory, this article investigates the relationship among leader-member exchange （LMX） , positive / negative affect and employee creativity, and the moderating effect of the perceived organizational support for creativity. With a sample of 442 supexwisor-subordinate dyads, the research finds that positive and negative affect significantly mediate the relationship between LMX and employee creativity, perceived organizational support for creativity （POSC） positively moderates the relationship between positive affect and creativity, whereas its moderating effect on the relationship between negative affect and creativity is non- significant. POSC also determines the extent to which positive and negative affect account fox＂ the effect of LMX on employee creativity.