基于社会认知理论,探究中国组织情境下谦卑型领导对知识员工创造力的影响及作用机制,并探索心理安全和创造性自我效能在以上关系中所起的中介作用和调节作用.研究采用纵向追踪设计,以环同济知识经济圈的438名知识员工为调研对象,利用问卷调查法先后进行3次数据收集,并对调查所获得的匹配数据进行分析.研究结果发现:谦卑型领导对知识员工创造力有显著的正向影响;心理安全在谦卑型领导和知识员工创造力的关系中起着完全中介作用;创造性自我效能越高,谦卑型领导对知识员工创造力的作用越强;心理安全的中介作用在创造性自我效能对主效应的整体调节作用之下.研究结论拓展了谦卑型领导理论及知识员工创造力领域的相关研究.
Based on social cognitive theory, it examined the effect of humble leadership on knowledge employee creativity, and further explored the mediating effect of psychological safety and the moderating effect of creative self- efficacy in the above relations in the context of Chinese organizations. It used longitudinal study and collected data for three times with a structured questionnaire. Hierarchical regression analyses were made on a matched sample of 438 knowledge employees from the knowledge economy circle around Tongji University. The results of analyses shows that : humble leadership is positively related to knowledge employee creativity; psychological safety mediates the relationship between humble leadership and knowledge employee creativity; creative self-efficacy moderates the relationship between humble leadership and knowledge employee creativity; the mediation of psychological safety underlies the overall moderating effect of creative self-efficacy on the relationship between humble leadership and knowledge employee creativity. The results contribute to expand the humble leadership theory and creativity theory.