领导“积极”的挑战性压力为何对员工创造力产生“消极”的影响?  

Leading Poorly under Challenge Stress?Indirect Influence of Team Leader's Challenge Stress on Subordinates'Creativity

作　　者：李姜锦[1] 刘春林[2] 李虎[2] Li Jiangjin;Liu Chunlin;Li Hu(School of Business,Nanjing Normal University,Nanjing 210023;School of Business,Nanjing University,Nanjing 210093)

机构地区：[1]南京师范大学商学院,南京210023 [2]南京大学商学院,南京210093

出　　处：《管理评论》2023年第7期199-208,共10页Management Review

基　　金：国家自然科学基金面上项目(72072085;71572076);江苏省社会科学基金项目(20GLB004);江苏高校哲学社会科学研究一般项目(2023SJYB0232)。

摘　　要：挑战性压力会激发出个体的积极应对,可是当团队中的领导面临挑战性压力时,他们对此类压力的反应将如何影响下属员工的创造力表现?通过引入压力下外显监控理论,基于对某世界五百强企业202个团队的领导及对应团队中985个员工分三阶段的调研,本研究发现领导在挑战性压力下会降低对员工的授权行为,继而阻碍员工的创造力表现。此外,领导对上尽责会显著强化上述中介效应;而领导对下尽责并不能削弱上述中介效应。本文将工作压力的作用研究从围绕个体本身拓展到了领导与下属关系层次,对挑战性压力的人际负面效应提供了情境和证据。研究发现对组织中有关工作压力与创造力的理论研究和管理实践均具有重要启示意义。While challenge stress has received considerable attention in the literature,current researches generally investigate the positive results of challenge stress on employees themselves but seldom concentrate on its negative results.In fact,good stress for individuals is likely to have a bad influence on others through interpersonal interactions-particularly among unequal leader-member relations.Based on the explicit monitoring theory,leaders may become self-focused under challenge stress,immersing themselves in the coping process of self-participation but ignoring the autonomy of subordinates when they advance work.We introduce this theory to propose that challenge stress undertook by leaders would decrease their empowering behaviors,thus adversely affecting subordinates'creativity.A large-scale investigation survey is conducted by three stages to branch teams of a world's top-500 company located in China's eastern cities of an environment in need of employees'creativity.This paper reveals the process about how team leaders'challenge stress brings negative effects on employees'creativity by the mechanism of leader's empowering behaviors.Moderating effects of leaders'accountability to superiors on the above mediating effect are verified,while the moderating role of leaders'accountability to inferiors is not found.This paper expands the research on the role of work stress from the intra-person effect on oneself to the interpersonal impact of leaders on subordinates,and has implications for the theoretical research and management practice of work stress and creativity in organizations.

关 键 词：挑战性压力 领导授权 创造力 多层次模型 

分 类 号：F272.91[经济管理—企业管理] F272.92[经济管理—国民经济]