以认知机制和内在动机理论为基础,探究在科研团队中变革型领导对下属成员创新行为的影响及其内在作用机制。采用问卷调查方法,对中国科学院所属学部内科研团队中的领导者及其直属下属进行调研。由下属完成员工问卷(包括变革型领导、心理授权、工作复杂性),领导者对其下属的创新行为进行评价,共获得79名领导者和237名科研人员的配对数据,采用Mplus软件进行统计分析。研究结果表明,在科研团队中,变革型领导对其下属的创新行为有显著正向影响;下属的心理授权在变革型领导和下属创新行为间起中介作用;下属所从事工作的复杂性对变革型领导→心理授权→下属创新行为这一中介作用有正向调节作用,即工作复杂性较高时,变革型领导通过心理授权影响下属创新行为的正向中介作用显著,而工作复杂性较低时该中介作用不显著。
Researcher' creative behavior has received considerable attention from researchers as an important source of scientific team's innovation. It is of great importance to understand the factors affecting researcher' individual creative behavior. However, some studies find that transformational leadership is not correlated, even negative correlated with followers' creative behavior. Given the inconsistent findings about the relationship between transformational leadership and followers' creative behavior in pre- vious research, we propose that mediating and moderating variables may help us better understand the dynamics between transfor- mational leadership and individual creative behavior. For this reason, this study aims at refining the effect of transformational leadership on followers' creative behavior and the mechanism between these two variables in teams of researchers. On the basis of recognition mechanism and intrinsic motivation theory, this study investigates the influence of transformational leadership on follower individual creative behavior, as well as the mediating (psychological empowerment) and moderating (job complexity) variables of this relation in researchers' team. This study was conducted by questionnaire investigation. The sample for this study is composed of research leaders and members of active laboratories in China. These research laboratories are em- bedded within a larger research group that is led by a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The laboratory mem- bers were asked to complete the measures of transformational leadership, psychological empowerment, and job complexity. The laboratory leaders rated their direct subordinates' creative behavior respectively. Muhisource data were collected from 79 active laboratory leaders and 237 team members. Then we adopt regression, as well as bootstrap to test our hypotheses by Mplus7 statis- tical software. The results of our study indicate that transformational leadership is positively related to followe