员工创造力对企业发展至关重要,因此如何有效提高员工创造力成为当前一个重要研究议题。目前,大量学者从社会网络的视角研究了创造力的影响因素,但是鲜有研究关注间接社会网络对创造力的影响。间接社会网络是指个体的朋友或同事(团队成员)所拥有的社会网络关系或占据的网络位置。本研究探讨了员工的间接网络中心度、结构洞对员工创造力的影响,以及员工心理安全的调节作用。基于224份来自高科技企业的有效调查问卷,结果发现,间接网络中心度对员工创造力有积极影响,而间接网络结构洞对创造力有消极影响。此外,员工的心理安全对间接网络中心度与员工创造力之间的关系有正向调节作用,但是对间接网络结构洞与员工创造力之间关系的调节作用不显著。根据上述研究结果,文章对企业管理实践提供了相应的建议。
Employee creativity is critical to enterprise development, so how to effectively improve employee creativity becomes an important issue today. Many scholars have studied the drivers of creativity from the social network perspective, but little research has focused on the influence of indirect networks on creativity. Indirect network refers to the social network of one' s contacts (e.g., the focal employees' coworkers in the team).This research explored how an employee' s indirect network centrality and structural holes influenced his/her creativity, and how the employee's psychological safety moderated such effects. By using valid data collected from 224 employees in high-tech firms, the results showed that an employee' s indirect network centrality was positively related to the employee creativity, while the indirect network structural holes was negatively related to the employee creativity. In addition, the employee' s psychological safety positively moderated the relationship between the employee' s indirect network centrality and his/her creativity, but its moderating effect on the relationship between the indirect network structural holes and employee creativity was not significant. We put forward suggestions for the management practice of the enterprise based on the research conclusion.