When Teamwork Works: Examining the Relationship Between Leader-Member Exchange Differentiation and Team Creativity

Drawing on team creativity literature and social comparison theory, we investigate how leader-member exchange (LMX) differentiation influences team creativity. Using a survey based on 91 R&D teams from Chinese companies, we observe that LMX differentiation is negatively related to team creativit...

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Autores principales: Du, Juan, Lin, Xinyue, Cai, Yahua, Sun, Fufu, Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8815316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35126217
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.646514
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author Du, Juan
Lin, Xinyue
Cai, Yahua
Sun, Fufu
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description Drawing on team creativity literature and social comparison theory, we investigate how leader-member exchange (LMX) differentiation influences team creativity. Using a survey based on 91 R&D teams from Chinese companies, we observe that LMX differentiation is negatively related to team creativity (β = −0.35, p < 0.01). More importantly, we demonstrate that team behavioral integration mediates the relationship between LMX differentiation and team creativity (indirect effect size = −0.72, with 95% CI of −1.91, −0.13), and team emotional intelligence (TEI) moderates the relationship between LMX differentiation and team behavioral integration (β = 0.23, p < 0.05), such that LMX differentiation has a weaker negative influence on team behavioral integration when TEI is higher. These results provide relevant suggestions for organizational team building, management, and development.
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spelling pubmed-88153162022-02-05 When Teamwork Works: Examining the Relationship Between Leader-Member Exchange Differentiation and Team Creativity Du, Juan Lin, Xinyue Cai, Yahua Sun, Fufu Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph Front Psychol Psychology Drawing on team creativity literature and social comparison theory, we investigate how leader-member exchange (LMX) differentiation influences team creativity. Using a survey based on 91 R&D teams from Chinese companies, we observe that LMX differentiation is negatively related to team creativity (β = −0.35, p < 0.01). More importantly, we demonstrate that team behavioral integration mediates the relationship between LMX differentiation and team creativity (indirect effect size = −0.72, with 95% CI of −1.91, −0.13), and team emotional intelligence (TEI) moderates the relationship between LMX differentiation and team behavioral integration (β = 0.23, p < 0.05), such that LMX differentiation has a weaker negative influence on team behavioral integration when TEI is higher. These results provide relevant suggestions for organizational team building, management, and development. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8815316/ /pubmed/35126217 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.646514 Text en Copyright © 2022 Du, Lin, Cai, Sun and Amankwah-Amoah. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_short When Teamwork Works: Examining the Relationship Between Leader-Member Exchange Differentiation and Team Creativity
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8815316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35126217
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.646514
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