Proving my creativity: When and why leaders' idea rejection leads to employees' creative deviance?

IF 3.5 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Personality and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2024.112881

Yuming Wang , Jinlian Luo , Wenan Hu

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Abstract

It is not uncommon for employees to engage in creative deviance after their ideas are rejected by leaders. Yet, it is premature to assume that every employee will respond to leaders' rejection of their ideas by engaging in creative deviance. In this article, we employ identity-based control theory to elucidate when and how leaders' rejection of ideas leads to employees' creative deviance. Specifically, given that idea rejection provides feedback inconsistent with their identity expectations, we theorize that employees with higher creative role identities will experience stronger creative identity threat when encountering leaders' rejection. The creative identity threat in turn leads employees to reconfirm their identities by engaging in creative deviance because it can serve as a shortcut to restore their threatened identities. We conducted two studies utilizing three-wave time-lagged survey (Study 1: N = 228) and scenario-based experimental designs (Study 2: N = 232). Results from ANOVA and path analysis supported our hypotheses. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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证明我的创造力领导者拒绝创意何时以及为何会导致员工出现创意偏差？

员工在自己的想法被领导拒绝后进行创造性反叛的情况并不少见。然而，假定每个员工都会以创造性偏差来回应领导对其想法的否定还为时过早。在本文中，我们运用基于身份的控制理论来阐明领导者拒绝员工想法的行为何时以及如何导致员工的创造性偏差。具体来说，鉴于想法被拒绝会带来与员工身份期望不一致的反馈，我们推测，具有较高创造性角色身份的员工在遭遇领导拒绝时会经历较强的创造性身份威胁。反过来，创造性身份威胁又会导致员工通过参与创造性偏差来重新确认自己的身份，因为这可以作为恢复受威胁身份的捷径。我们利用三波时滞调查（研究 1：人数 = 228）和基于情景的实验设计（研究 2：人数 = 232）进行了两项研究。方差分析和路径分析的结果支持了我们的假设。本文讨论了理论和实践意义。

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Personality and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

CiteScore

8.50

自引率

4.70%

发文量

577

审稿时长

41 days

期刊介绍： Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.