Abstract
Job-related anxiety has been investigated to have significant effect on employee attitudes and behaviors. Drawing from activation theory and information processing perspective, we explored whether anxiety affects creativity and examined the curvilinear relationship between team anxiety and employee creativity. Furthermore, we posited that employee authentic pride and team cooperativeness would moderate this relationship. Based on a three-wave research design, results from 65 teams and 290 employees supported an inverted U-shaped team anxiety-creativity relationship. Meanwhile, it showed that employees with high authentic pride or in high cooperative teams will produce more creativity under intermediate level of team anxiety. Finally, implications of these results for future research and practice were discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Academy of Management Proceedings 2018 |
| Editors | Sonia Taneja |
| Publisher | Academy of Management |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Aug 2018 |
| Event | 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2018: Improving Lives - Chicago, United States Duration: 10 Aug 2018 → 14 Aug 2018 https://aom.org/events/annual-meeting/past-annual-meetings/2018-improving-lives (Conference website) https://journals.aom.org/toc/amproc/2018/1 (Conference proceedings) |
Publication series
| Name | Academy of Management Proceedings |
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| Number | 1 |
| Volume | 2018 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0065-0668 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 2151-6561 |
Conference
| Conference | 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2018 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Chicago |
| Period | 10/08/18 → 14/08/18 |
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