组织内人际信任对员工创造力的作用:基于元分析的证据

The Impact of Interpersonal Trust on Employee’s Creativity in Organizations:An Evidence Based on Meta‐analysis

本文采用元分析方法收集56项人际信任与员工创造力关系的独立实证研究样本(17482个个体样本)进行再分析,结果表明:人际信任能有效激发员工创造力,人际信任与员工创造力存在显著中等强度的正向关系(r=0.34);感知到领导信任、同事间相互信任较信任领导对员工创造力的作用都大;当数据来源于同一个体时,得到的人际信任对员工创造力影响水平更高;人际信任对员工创造力的作用在新生代员工群体中较年长员工群体显著;东方文化背景下人际信任对员工创造力的作用强度要高于西方文化背景;发展水平低的国家中,人际信任对员工创造力的作用要大于发展水平高的国家。

Meta⁃analysis method are used to carry out a re⁃analysis with 56 independent empirical research samples about the relationship between interpersonal trust and creativity.The results show as follows.Interpersonal trust can motivate employees’creativity effectively,and there is a mid⁃level significantly positive relationship(r=0.34)between interpersonal trust and employees’creativity.Felt trusted by leaders and Mutual trust between colleagues has more powerful impact on individual creativity than trust in leaders.When data come from the same individual,the impacting strength of the relationship will be higher.The impact of interpersonal trust in employee creativity is significantly greater in the new generation employee group than in the older employee group.The correlation level between interpersonal trust and employees’creativity is stronger in organizations under eastern cultural background than that of western cultural background,so do the organizations in low development level nations compared with organizations in high development level nations.