Team-directed empowering leadership and individual creativity: Creative role identity, power distance, and conformity

Yaping Gong, Alice H.Y. Hon, Y. Y. Wong, Song CHANG

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    Abstract

    Departing from the existing focus on intrinsic motivation, we theorized creative role identity as an underlying mechanism linking team-directed empowering leadership with individual creativity. We also theorized the power distance and conformity values of individuals as boundary conditions for the creative role identity mechanism. We collected data from 33 team leaders (supervisors) and 276 team members (subordinates). Our results indicate that team-directed empowering leadership had a positive relationship with creative role identity, which in turn had a positive relationship with individual creativity. The power distance and conformity of individuals moderated the relationship between team-directed empowering leadership and creative role identity and the indirect relationship that it had with individual creativity via creative role identity, such that the relationship was stronger at low levels of power distance and conformity.
    Original languageEnglish
    Publication statusPublished - Jun 2019
    Event11th Asia Academy of Management Conference, AAoM 2019 - Bali, Indonesia
    Duration: 19 Jun 201921 Jun 2019
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    https://personal.utdallas.edu/~mikepeng/documents/AAOM%20program%20190507.pdf (Conference booklet)

    Conference

    Conference11th Asia Academy of Management Conference, AAoM 2019
    Country/TerritoryIndonesia
    CityBali
    Period19/06/1921/06/19
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