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Positive and Negative Supervisor Development Feedback, Team Harmonious Innovation Passion and Team Creativity.
Yuchun Xiao1, Shuwei Liu1,2, Ting Dai3
1School of Business Administration, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China.
Frontiers in Psychology
|September 20, 2021
Summary
Supervisors' developmental feedback, both positive and negative, boosts team creativity. Negative feedback shows a stronger impact, mediated by harmonious innovation passion, with proactive personalities enhancing this effect.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Behavior
- Team Dynamics
- Innovation Management
Background:
- Team creativity is crucial for organizational innovation, yet understanding supervisor feedback's impact is limited.
- Effective management of team creativity presents a significant challenge for leaders.
- Existing research lacks insight into how teams leverage supervisor developmental feedback for enhanced creativity.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the influence of supervisor developmental feedback on team creativity.
- To explore the mediating role of harmonious innovation passion in this relationship.
- To examine the moderating effect of proactive personality on feedback-passion dynamics.
Main Methods:
- Statistical analysis involving 94 supervisors and 330 employees.
- Examined the impact of positive and negative developmental feedback.
- Utilized mediation and moderation analyses to test theoretical pathways.
Main Results:
- Both positive and negative supervisor developmental feedback positively impact team creativity.
- Negative developmental feedback demonstrates a stronger positive effect on team creativity.
- Harmonious innovation passion mediates the relationship between supervisor feedback and team creativity.
- Proactive personality moderates the link between supervisor feedback and harmonious innovation passion.
Conclusions:
- Supervisor developmental feedback is a key driver of team creativity.
- Negative feedback, while potentially challenging, can be a powerful catalyst for creativity.
- Fostering harmonious innovation passion and leveraging proactive personalities can optimize feedback's creative benefits.
- Findings offer practical applications for management practices to enhance team creativity, particularly within Chinese cultural contexts.
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