创造性人格与员工创造力：一个被调节的中介模型研究

摘要： 本文基于动机行动理论和成就动机理论，构建一个被调节的中介模型以检验创造性人格对员工创造力产生的作用机理。以251套来自主管-下属配对的问卷数据为样本，实证分析结果表明：创造性人格可预测员工创造力产生，个体学习目标导向与绩效证明目标导向在创造性人格与员工创造力之间起部分中介作用；个体内在动机能够强化个体目标导向对创造力的作用，并显著正向调节创造性人格对员工创造力的间接效应。最后，论文讨论了研究发现对员工创造力产生的理论和实践意义。
Abstract: Creativity-the generation of useful and novel ideas-produced by individuals in the workplace has been recognized as a primary source for innovation within the organization, and thus is important for sustainable development and competitive advantages. In terms of this, more attentions are paid for employee creativity. Among them, existing literature indicated that personality is a critical factor that explains the differences of individual creativity and some characteristics do influence creativity. But researchers found that individuals with creative personality may not produce creativity. Thus, to promote employee creativity, we intended to explore the mechanism of how creative personality leads to employee creativity. At first, we reviewed the preliminary literatures and identified relative theories about creative personality and creativity. Secondly，we developed a moderated mediation model to examine the mechanism between creative personality and employee creativity including the mediating effect of goal orientation and the moderating effect of intrinsic motivation based on motivated action and achievement motivation theory．Thirdly，we examined our hypotheses by using a sample of 251 subordinate-supervisor dyads from 13 companies in China. The results showed that: (1) Creativity personality can reliably predict employee creativity (β=.591，p<.01) while employee’ s learning goal orientation and performance approach orientation partially mediated the relationship between the two; (2) Intrinsic motivation not only enhanced the influence of employee’ s learning goal orientation(β=.37，p<.01) and performance approach orientation(β=.31，p<.01) on employee creativity, but also positively moderated the indirect relationships between creative personality and employee creativity via goal orientation. What’s more, this study also indicated that the indirect effect of creative personality on employee creativity through performance approach goal orientation was no longer significant(r=.032, p<0.05) while through learning goal orientation was still significant (r=.032, p<0.05) under low level of intrinsic creativity. This study not only extended existing literatures about personality and employee creativity by exploring the mechanism how creative personality lead to creativity, but also shed a light on management