领导对下属的信任与员工创造力——心理授权的中介效应

Leader's Trust in Subordinate and Employee Creativity——The mediating effect of psychological empowerment

创造力的产生离不开人与人之间的互动与知识的交换,信任则正是这种互动与交换的基石。因此,信任,特别是领导对下属的信任对创造力有重要影响。通过对华北地区三个国有企业领导者与员工进行问卷调查,探讨了领导信任下属对员工创造力的作用,并验证了心理授权及其维度在二者关系中的中介作用。采用结构方程模型进行了验证,发现领导信任下属对员工创造力有显著的正向作用;领导信任下属对心理授权及其能力、自我决策和价值维度有显著的正向作用;心理授权及其能力和价值维度在领导信任下属与员工创造力之间起到了部分中介作用。

The employee creativity depens on the interpersonal interaction and the knowledge exchange, in which the trust is the keystone. Therefore, the interpersonal trust, especially leader’s trust in subordinate (LTS) has important effect on employee creativity. In order to test the important role of LTS on employee creativity, a study with questionnaire survey, in which leaders and employees from three state-owned enterprises in North China were involved, is designed to explore the mediating effect of psychological empowerment on the relationship between leader’s trust in subordinate and employee creativity. By using a structure equation model, the study finds that leader’s trust in subordinate has a positive effect on not only the employee creativity but also the psychological empowerment, the latter of which, in return, has a partial mediating effect on the relationship between leader’s trust in subordinate and employee creativity.