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Context matters: Combined influence of participation and intellectual stimulation on the promotion focus–employee creativity relationship
Author(s) -
Zhou Qin,
Hirst Giles,
Shipton Helen
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/job.779
Subject(s) - creativity , promotion (chess) , context (archaeology) , psychology , regulatory focus theory , focus (optics) , social psychology , public relations , political science , paleontology , physics , optics , politics , law , biology
Summary In this paper, we examined the interactive effects of two contexts—participation and intellectual stimulation, and promotion focus on creativity. On the basis of a multi‐organization sample of 213 employees, we tested and found that although promotion focus was positively related to creativity, the relationship between promotion focus and creativity was most positive when both participation and leader intellectual stimulation were high. We discuss the way contexts in combination influence employee creativity for promotion‐oriented individuals, through increasing decision latitude as well as stimulating and promoting creativity. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.