Routinization, free cognitive resources and creativity: The role of individual and contextual contingencies

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 420-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heesun Chae ◽  
Jin Nam Choi
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Task Complexity ◽  
Supervisor Support ◽  
Cognitive Resources ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Conditional Indirect Effects

In job design and creativity literature, challenging and complex jobs drive individual creativity, whereas routinization impedes creative outcomes. This study challenges this prevailing view by exploring the intermediate psychological mechanism and boundary conditions enabling the potential benefits of routinization to foster creativity in organizations. Routinization economizes employees’ use of resources in performing tasks, thereby generating free cognitive resources that can be utilized for creative problem-solving. In addition, the effect of routinization on creativity, as mediated by free cognitive resources, is positively moderated by two boundary conditions: learning goal orientation of employees and supervisor support for creativity. Field data collected from 198 engineers and technicians and 56 supervisors working in manufacturing companies in South Korea confirm the moderated mediation hypotheses. The conditional indirect effects of routinization on creativity through free cognitive resources are significant and positive when the learning goal orientation of employees and supervisor support for creativity are high. These findings highlight the need for a balanced consideration of the ambivalent effects of task complexity and routinization on employee creativity along with further investigations on the contingencies of their effects.

Abusive supervision and knowledge sharing: moderating roles of Islamic work ethic and learning goal orientation

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Talat Islam ◽  
Saima Ahmad ◽  
Ahmad Kaleem ◽  
Khalid Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Abusive Supervision ◽  
Theoretical Implication ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Islamic Work Ethic

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to extend the scant literature on the effect of abusive supervision on knowledge sharing by examining the roles of Islamic work ethic and learning goal orientation in moderating the effect.Design/methodology/approachThis paper utilizes a cross-lagged survey research design to collect data from 735 employees working in the services and manufacturing sectors of Pakistan.FindingsThe data analysis revealed that abusive supervision has a damaging effect on knowledge sharing in the workplace. However, employee learning goal orientation and the Islamic work ethic help in mitigating this detrimental effect.Research limitations/implicationsThe main theoretical implication is to advance knowledge on the boundary conditions that help in mitigating the undesirable effect of abusive supervision on sharing of knowledge in organizational settings.Practical implicationsThis paper provides practical insights into mitigating the damaging effects of abusive supervision, a prevalent issue in Asian societies, through the lenses of Islamic business ethics and learning goal orientation.Originality/valueThis is the first study that examines the boundary conditions placed by the Islamic work ethic and learning goal orientation around the relationship between abusive supervision and knowledge sharing in the context of Pakistan.

THE EFFECT OF GOAL ORIENTATION, SELF EFFICACY, OBEDIENCE PRESSURE, AND TASK COMPLEXITY ON AUDIT JUDGMENT AT INSPECTORATE GENERAL OF THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-71
Author(s):  
Geza Arido Evalta Cahya ◽  
Rynalto Mukiwihando
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Task Complexity ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Audit Judgment ◽  
Ministry Of Finance ◽  
And Task ◽  
Avoidance Goal

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh goal orientation, self efficacy, tekanan ketaatan, dan kompleksitas tugas terhadap audit judgment. Sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah auditor pada Inspektorat Jenderal Kementerian Keuangan sebanyak 146 auditor. Data analisis menggunakan analisis regresi berganda dengan bantuan program SPSS 25. Hasil dari penelitian menunjukkan bahwa self efficacy, learning goal orientation, dan performance approach goal orientation berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap audit judgment. Selain itu, kompleksitas tugas berpengaruh negatif dan signifikan terhadap audit judgment. Sedangkan, performance avoidance goal orientation dan tekanan ketaatan tidak berpengaruh terhadap audit judgment.

scholarly journals The relationship between proactive personality and creative behavior

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 607-632
Author(s):  
YoungSin Eun ◽  
TaeYong Yoo ◽  
HakSam Seo
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Supervisor Support ◽  
Proactive Personality ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Creative Behavior ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Creative Climate ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
The Relationship

The purposes of this study were to examine the influence of proactive personality on creative behavior, the mediating effect of learning goal orientation in the relationship between proactive personality and creative behavior, the moderating effect of creative self-efficacy in the relationship between proactive personality and learning goal orientation, the moderating effects of organizational creative climate and supervisor support for creativity in the relationship between learning goal orientation and creative behavior. Data were gathered from 330 employees who were working in one organization in Korea. To reduce the effect from the common method bias, the creative behavior was rated by others(three hundred and thirty peers, subordinates, and supervisors). As a result, learning goal orientation partially mediated the relationships between proactive personality and creative behavior. Creative self-efficacy moderated the relationship between proactive personality and learning goal orientation. Organizational creative climate moderated the relationship between learning goal orientation and creative behavior. Also supervisor support for creativity had a moderating effect between learning goal orientation and creative behavior. Finally, implication of results and future research tasks were discussed with limitations.

Learning Goal Orientation and Creativity: Role of Psychological Safety

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren C. K. Chiu ◽  
Humphrey Leung ◽  
Kaylee Kong ◽  
Cynthia Lee
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Psychological Safety ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation

scholarly journals Supervisor Knowledge Sharing and Employee Knowledge Sharing: The Moderating Roles of Learning Goal Orientation and Affective Organizational Commitment

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4176
Author(s):  
Seckyoung Loretta Kim
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Affective Organizational Commitment ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

Recognizing the importance of knowledge sharing, this study adopted social learning and social exchange perspectives to understand when employees may engage in knowledge sharing. Using data collected from 192 employees in various South Korean organizations, the findings demonstrate that there is a positive relationship between supervisor knowledge sharing and employee knowledge sharing. As employees perceive a high level of supervisor knowledge sharing, they are likely to engage in knowledge sharing based on social learning and social exchange theories. Furthermore, the study explores the moderating effects of learning goal orientation and affective organizational commitment in the relationship between supervisor knowledge sharing and employee knowledge sharing. The result supports the hypothesis that the relationship between supervisor knowledge sharing and employee knowledge sharing is strengthened when there is a high level of affective organizational commitment. Employees who obtain valuable knowledge from their supervisors are likely to engage in knowledge sharing when they are emotionally attached to their organization. However, in contrast to the hypothesis, the positive relationship between supervisor knowledge sharing and employee knowledge sharing was stronger at the lower levels of learning goal orientation (LGO) than at the higher levels of LGO.

Learning Goal Orientation and Academic Performance: A Dynamic model

2021 ◽  
pp. 106907272110434
Author(s):  
Bingjie Lu ◽  
Yingxin Deng ◽  
Xiang Yao ◽  
Zhe Li
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
University Students ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Regulation System ◽  
Feedback Seeking ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Academic Self Efficacy

Drawing on the reciprocal determinism of self-regulation system, a process-based model is used to examine the relationship of learning goal orientation (LGO) among university students with their academic performance, via reciprocal relationships between initial status and change trajectories in academic self-efficacy and feedback-seeking behaviors. A longitudinal study of 316 Chinese university students throughout their first year in college reveals that students who have high LGO in their first month after entering the university generally have higher academic self-efficacy and seek more feedback. Moreover, initial levels of feedback seeking are positively related to academic performance via linear change in academic self-efficacy over time. Limitations of the study and practical implications are discussed.

scholarly journals Team Leaders Matter in Knowledge Sharing: A Cross-Level Analysis of the Interplay between Leaders’ and Members’ Goal Orientations in the Chinese Context

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 715-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiamin Zhang ◽  
Yi Wang ◽  
Marina Yue Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Team Leaders ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Approach Orientation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTThis article investigates the impact of cross-level interplay between team members’ and their leaders’ goal orientations (learning, performance approach, and performance avoidance) on knowledge sharing using samples from design teams in two companies in China. Our results show that team leaders’ learning goal orientation plays a critical moderating role. Specifically, team leaders’ learning goal orientation strengthens the positive relationship between team members’ learning orientation and knowledge sharing; positively moderates the relationship between team members’ performance approach orientation and knowledge sharing; and weakens the negative relationship between team members’ performance avoidance orientation and knowledge sharing. Team leaders’ performance approach orientation demonstrates a positive moderating effect when there is congruence between the performance approach orientation of leaders and members. Finally, team leaders’ performance avoidance orientation negatively moderates the relationship between team members’ learning and performance approach orientation on knowledge sharing. This research enhances our understanding of the conditions under which knowledge sharing occurs among team members, using the lens of Trait Activation Theory.

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