领导批判性思维能激活团队创造力吗?一个三重交互作用模型

Will Leader Critical Thinking Trigger Team Creativity?A Three⁃way Interactive Model

创新驱动发展战略的深度实施和团队工作方式的盛行,使得团队创造力越来越受到学者们的广泛关注。本研究从领导批判性思维这一认知视角出发,探讨其对团队创造力的影响。以某通信公司的82个研发团队为样本,基于团队动机驱动的信息处理理论,假设并验证了领导批判性思维能够提高整个团队的创造力水平,且团队信息深度加工起到中介作用。此外,时间压力能够弱化领导批判性思维和团队信息深度加工之间的关系;任务复杂性则能强化这一关系。领导批判性思维、时间压力和任务复杂性对团队信息深度加工产生三重交互作用,即当时间压力小且任务复杂性高时,领导批判性思维对团队信息深度加工的促进作用最强。最后探讨了该研究的理论意义和管理启示。

With the increasing status of innovation⁃driven development strategy and the prevalence of teamwork,team creativity has at⁃tracted more and more attention from scholars.The current study explores the influence of leader critical thinking on team creativity from the cognitive perspective.We examine the effectiveness of leader critical thinking on team creativity with 82 R&D teams from a mobile communication company as the sample.Drawing on MIP⁃G,the study finds that leader critical thinking is positively related to team crea⁃tivity,in which team information elaboration plays a mediating role.In addition,time pressure and task complexity moderate the relation⁃ship between leader critical thinking and team information elaboration,in such a way that time pressure attenuates the relationship,while task complexity strengthens the relationship.In addition,leader critical thinking,time pressure and task complexity have a three⁃way in⁃teractive effect on team information elaboration,in such a way that the relationship between leader critical thinking and team information elaboration is the strongest when time pressure is low and task complexity is high.At last,we discuss the theoretical implications and practical suggestions.