Supervisor incivility and millennial employee creativity: A moderated mediation model

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang-E Liu ◽  
Yahui Chen ◽  
Wei He ◽  
Jie Huang
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Moderated Mediation ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Employee Creativity ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Perceived Insider Status

Mitigating the detrimental impact of workplace incivility on employee performance and boosting millennial employee creativity are 2 common challenges for organizations around the world. Drawing on self-determination theory and social identity theory, we examined the roles of intrinsic motivation and perceived insider status in the relationship between supervisor incivility and millennial employee creativity. With data collected from 481 millennial employees in China, we found strong support for a moderated mediation model, in which the negative relationship between supervisor incivility and millennial employee creativity was mediated by intrinsic motivation, such that the mediating relationship was strengthened for employees with a low level of perceived insider status and weakened for employees with a high level of perceived insider status. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings.

Linking team-member exchange differentiation to team creativity

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-219
Author(s):  
Chao Chen ◽  
Xinmei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Moderated Mediation ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Team Creativity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Team Member Exchange ◽  
Member Exchange

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of team-member exchange (TMX) differentiation on team creativity by developing a moderated mediation model. The model focuses on the mediating role of team proactivity in linking TMX differentiation with team creativity and the moderating role of leader-member exchange (LMX) median in influencing the mediation.Design/methodology/approachA time-lagged field survey data from 331 employees and 68 team leaders in more than ten high-technology firms from Northern China was used to test the model.FindingsResults indicated that the negative relationship between TMX differentiation and team creativity was mediated by team proactivity. Moderated mediation analyses further revealed that team proactivity mediated the relationship between TMX differentiation and team creativity for only those teams with a low-LMX median.Originality/valueThe empirical study provides preliminary evidence of the mediating role of team proactivity in the negative relationship between TMX differentiation and team creativity. The moderated mediation model also extends the existing finding by showing that LMX quality can moderate the indirect impact of TMX differentiation on team creativity (via team proactivity).

A moderated mediation model of employee experienced diversity management: openness to experience, perceived visible diversity discrimination and job satisfaction

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Shahin Alam ◽  
DuckJung Shin
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Moderated Mediation ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThis study developed and tested a moderated mediation model on workplace diversity management. The analysis examined whether diversity management affects job satisfaction via perceived discrimination, depending on employees' openness to experience.Design/methodology/approachBuilding upon the assumptions of social identity theory, social cognitive theory and Big-Five theory, this study proposed and tested a model that analyzes the process through which diversity management influences perceived visible diversity discrimination and job satisfaction, depending on employees' openness to experience.FindingsThis study found support for the proposed moderated mediation model, which suggests that diversity management interacts with employees' openness to experience personality to influence their job satisfaction through perceived visible diversity discrimination. The results indicated that diversity management increased employees' job satisfaction in the workplace and that the relationship between diversity management and job satisfaction was further mediated by employees' perceptions of being discriminated against because of their age, gender and racial identities. The effect of diversity management on job satisfaction through perceived visible diversity discrimination was stronger when employees had high levels of openness to experience.Practical implicationsThe results of the study suggest that the diversity management is an important organizational intervention to improve job satisfaction by providing a scientific explanation of its underlying psychological process and identifying the factors associated with the process, such as personality and perception of being discriminated.Originality/valueThis study contributes to extend the diversity management literature by applying the assumptions of social identity theory, social cognitive theory and Big-Five theory together to identify the relationship between diversity management and job satisfaction and the effect of perceived discrimination and openness to experience in the relationship.

Climate for innovation and employee creativity

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-356
Author(s):  
Jieqiong Liu ◽  
Yanfei Wang ◽  
Yu Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Moderated Mediation ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Path Modeling ◽  
Employee Creativity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Openness To Change ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Modeling Analysis ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThis study proposes a moderated mediation model that examines the roles that openness to change and psychological capital (PsyCap) may play in the relationship between climate for innovation and employee creativity.Design/methodology/approachPath modeling analysis with software Mplus 7 is conducted to test our moderated mediation model.FindingsThe results show that climate for innovation promotes openness to change, which in turn encourages employee creativity, and PsyCap moderates not only the relationship between climate for innovation and openness to change but also the indirect effect of climate for innovation on employee creativity through openness to change.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough we attempt to avoid common method bias by collecting data in two waves, the six-month time interval separating the two waves of data collection may not be long enough to detect the causal relationship between climate for innovation and employee creativity. In addition, this study is conducted in companies located in China, which may raise the question of generalizability to other cultures.Originality/valueThe main contribution is building a moderated mediation model to uncover the potential mediating mechanism and boundary conditions associated with the influence of climate for innovation on employee creativity.

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