In line and out of the box: How ethical leaders help offset the negative effect of morality on creativity.
In line and out of the box: How ethical leaders help offset the negative effect of morality on creativity.
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10.1037/apl0000489
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2020-03
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Xin Liu;H. Liao;Rellie Derfler-Rozin;Xiaoming Zheng;Elijah X M Wee;Feng Qiu
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Xin Liu;H. Liao;Rellie Derfler-Rozin;Xiaoming Zheng;Elijah X M Wee;Feng Qiu
利用角色理论，我们研究了员工道德所有权与其创造力之间潜在的负向关系，以及道德领导在这种关系中的缓解作用。我们认为，道德主人翁意识较高的员工可能会承担更多的道德角色责任，以确保自己行为和环境的道德本质，从而无意中导致他们无法跳出框框思考，也无法在工作中发挥创造力。然而，我们建议道德领导者可以将这些员工从道德代理人的角色中解放出来，让他们在保持道德的同时发挥创造力。我们采用多种方法，并在 2 项实地研究（1 项来自美国的双元研究和 1 项来自中国的团队研究）和 2 项实验研究（1 项基于场景的研究和 1 项基于团队的实验室研究）中测试我们的预测。这些研究的结果表明：(a) 员工道德所有权与员工创造力呈负相关，(b) 道德领导力调节这种关系，使得当道德领导力高而不是低时，负面关联就会减轻。此外，基于团队的实验室研究表明，道德责任减轻介导了道德领导力的缓冲效应。我们讨论对工作中的角色理论、道德、创造力和领导力的影响。 （PsycINFO 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。
Utilizing role theory, we investigate the potential negative relationship between employees' moral ownership and their creativity, and the mitigating effect of ethical leadership in this relationship. We argue that employees higher on moral ownership are likely to take more moral role responsibility to ensure the ethical nature of their own actions and their environment, inadvertently resulting in them being less able to think outside of the box and to be creative at work. However, we propose that ethical leaders can relieve these employees from such moral agent role, allowing them to be creative while staying moral. We adopt a multimethod approach and test our predictions in 2 field studies (1 dyadic-based from the United States and 1 team-based from China) and 2 experimental studies (1 scenario-based and 1 team-based laboratory study). The results across these studies showed: (a) employee moral ownership is negatively related to employee creativity, and (b) ethical leadership moderates this relationship such that the negative association is mitigated when ethical leadership is high rather than low. Moreover, the team-based laboratory study demonstrated that moral responsibility relief mediated the buffering effect of ethical leadership. We discuss implications for role theory, ethicality, creativity, and leadership at work. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).