The Fire to Inspire: A Multilevel and Multimethod Investigation of How and When CEO Passion for Organizational Development Impacts Employee Creativity

IF 7 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Journal of Management Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-22 DOI:10.1111/joms.13019

Qing Gong, Dong Liu, Xiao-Ping Chen, Chunyan Jiang, Guoquan Chen

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Abstract

In this paper, we conceptualize CEO passion for organizational development (CEO POD) as CEOs’ strong inclination to continuously grow and improve their companies, which they find important and fulfilling. We draw from social information processing theory to articulate how and when CEO POD may trickle down to facilitate frontline employees’ creativity. Our research encompasses three studies employing different methodologies, including a multilevel, multisource, and multiphase survey and two vignette-based experiments. The results consistently support our model, revealing that CEO POD inspires middle managers to exhibit transformational leadership, which subsequently fosters frontline employees’ creativity. Moreover, CEO self-promotion skills augment the indirect effect of CEO POD on employee creativity via middle managers’ transformational leadership. Our findings generate valuable theoretical and practical implications to leverage CEO POD to foster employees’ creativity in the fast-changing business environment.

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激励之火:CEO对组织发展的热情如何以及何时影响员工创造力的多层次多方法调查

在本文中，我们将CEO组织发展热情(CEO passion for organizational development, POD)定义为CEO对公司持续成长和改进的强烈倾向，他们认为这是重要的和令人满意的。我们从社会信息处理理论出发，阐明CEO POD如何以及何时会涓滴效应，以促进一线员工的创造力。我们的研究包括三个采用不同方法的研究，包括一个多层次、多来源、多阶段的调查和两个基于图像的实验。结果一致支持我们的模型，表明CEO POD激励中层管理人员表现出变革型领导，进而促进一线员工的创造力。此外，CEO自我提升技能通过中层管理者的变革型领导增强了CEO POD对员工创造力的间接影响。我们的研究结果为利用CEO POD在快速变化的商业环境中培养员工的创造力提供了有价值的理论和实践意义。

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