You are invited to our Interdisciplinary Creativity Brown Bag
Working with Creative Leaders: Exploring the Relationship Between Supervisors’ and Subordinates’ Creativity.
Christina E. Shalley, Ph. D.
Thomas R. Williams-Wells Fargo Professor of Organizational Behavior
Georgia Institute of Technology
Friday, October 2nd 2015, 12:15– 1:15 pm
School of Business, Room 321
Abstract
We propose that supervisors’ own level of creativity is a core component of effective leadership that can influence subordinates’ self-concept and creativity. Specifically, drawing on role identity theory, we argue that the subordinates’ creative role identity is an important underlying mechanism in the relationship between supervisors’ level of creativity and their subordinates’ creativity. Using a sample of 443 employees working with 44 supervisors in an IT firm, we hypothesized and found a positive indirect relationship between supervisors’ creativity and their subordinates’ creativity via the subordinates’ creative role identity. In addition, we found that a high level of organizational support for creativity is necessary for a positive relationship between subordinates’ creative role identity and their creativity. Finally, the results provided support for our moderated mediation hypothesis, such that the indirect relationship between supervisor and subordinate creativity was stronger when there was high organizational support for creativity.
Please, forward this invitation to your colleagues who may be interested in creativity!
In addition, save the date for our next Interdisciplinary Creativity Brown Bag on 10/23. Our guest will be Professor Sandra Russ from Case Western Reserve University
For more information, contact: Nora Madjar at nora.madjar@business.uconn.edu