Paradoxical effects of narcissism on creative performance: Roles of leader–follower narcissism (in)congruence and follower identification with the leader

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Human Relations Pub Date : 2024-05-20 DOI:10.1177/00187267241251983

Xin Liu, Xiaoming Zheng, Yucheng Zhang, Hui Liao, Peter D Harms, Xin Qin, Yu Yu

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Abstract

What is the effect of trait narcissism on creative performance? Although both constructs share an emphasis on uniqueness and novelty, prior investigations of the narcissism–creative performance relationship have produced inconsistent findings and failed to provide conclusive answers to this question. One possible reason for the seemingly contradictory evidence is that extant research has examined the influences of leader and follower narcissism separately rather than simultaneously. In this study, we address this issue by investigating leader–follower narcissism (in)congruence to comprehensively understand when and why leader or follower narcissism is beneficial or detrimental to creative performance. Integrating the self-orientation model of narcissism and narcissistic-tolerance theory, we posit that leader and follower narcissism jointly influence creative performance via identification with the leader, and that different leader–follower narcissism (in)congruence combinations exhibit distinct effects. The analyses of two-wave, two-level, and multi-source data from 421 followers and 54 direct leaders, using cross-level polynomial regressions, support our hypotheses: (1) identification with the leader is maximized when leader narcissism and follower narcissism are congruent; (2) identification with the leader is minimized when leader narcissism is higher than follower narcissism; and (3) identification with the leader mediates the effects of leader–follower narcissism (in)congruence combinations on creative performance.

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自恋对创造性绩效的矛盾影响：领导者-追随者自恋（不）一致和追随者对领导者认同的作用

特质自恋对创造性表现有什么影响？虽然自恋和创造性都强调独特性和新颖性，但之前对自恋与创造性绩效关系的研究结果并不一致，也未能对这一问题给出结论性的答案。造成这些看似矛盾的证据的一个可能原因是，现有研究分别而非同时研究了领导者和追随者自恋的影响。在本研究中，我们通过研究领导者与追随者的自恋（不）一致性来解决这一问题，从而全面了解领导者或追随者的自恋何时以及为何对创造性绩效有利或有害。结合自恋的自我定位模型和自恋容忍理论，我们认为领导者和追随者的自恋会通过对领导者的认同共同影响创造性表现，而不同的领导者-追随者自恋（不）一致组合会表现出不同的效果。通过对来自 421 名追随者和 54 名直接领导者的两波、两级和多来源数据进行跨级多项式回归分析，支持了我们的假设：(1) 当领导者自恋和追随者自恋一致时，对领导者的认同最大化；(2) 当领导者自恋高于追随者自恋时，对领导者的认同最小化；(3) 对领导者的认同介导了领导者-追随者自恋（不）一致组合对创造性绩效的影响。

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