How abusive supervision climate affects team creativity: the contingent role of task interdependence

PurposeDrawing on theories of social information processing and social identity, the authors explore how abusive supervision climate affects team creativity in a Chinese cultural context. The authors propose that this relation will be mediated by collective efficacy and group identification and mode...

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Published inEuropean journal of innovation management Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 1183 - 1199
Main Authors Men, Chenghao, Yue, Lei, Weiwei, Huo, Liu, Bing, Li, Guangwei
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bradford Emerald Publishing Limited 23.06.2022
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Subjects
Context
Creativity
Data processing
Factor analysis
Identification
Influence
Information processing
Leadership
R&D
Research & development
Social identity
Supervision
Supervisors
Teams
Teamwork
Team creativity
Abusive supervision climate
Collective efficacy
Task interdependence
Group identification
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Summary:PurposeDrawing on theories of social information processing and social identity, the authors explore how abusive supervision climate affects team creativity in a Chinese cultural context. The authors propose that this relation will be mediated by collective efficacy and group identification and moderated by task interdependenceDesign/methodology/approachThe study conducted a confirmatory factor analysis and hierarchical regression to analyze the paired data from 67 research and development (R&D) teams involving 378 employees and employers in a Chinese cultural context.FindingsResults demonstrate that abusive supervision climate was negatively related to team creativity, fully mediated by collective efficacy and group identification in a Chinese cultural context. In addition, task interdependence strengthened the positive relation between collective efficacy and team creativity, as well the positive relation between group identification and team creativity.Originality/valueAlthough research has explored how abusive supervision climate influences individual creativity, few studies have investigated the relation between abusive supervision climate and team creativity in a Chinese cultural context. This study is one of the first to explore how abusive supervision climate affects team creativity in a Chinese cultural context and examine the moderating role of task interdependence in the relation between abusive supervision climate and team creativity.
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ISSN:1460-1060
1758-7115
DOI:10.1108/EJIM-08-2020-0310