Influence Of Job Autonomy On Employee Creativity And Moderation Of Team Conflict

From job autonomy, this paper explores the mechanism how job autonomyinfluences employee creativity and the intermediary conduction variable betweenjob autonomy and employee creativity. From the view of psychological factorsaffecting employee creativity, we put forward the intrinsic motivation asmediating variable between job autonomy and employee creativity. The focusis to verify whether the level of team conflict, mainly team task conflict and teamrelationship conflict, will moderate the relationship between job autonomy andintrinsic motivation, and tell when it will enhance the relationship between thetwo, or when it will weaken the relationship. The data collects from the differentteams of ten IT enterprises in Shenzhen. We totally surveyed104leaders and406subordinates from corresponding104teams, and each team consists of one leaderand2-6subordinates. Then using confirmatory factor analysis, regressionanalysis and cross-level modeling method, we analyze the model of jobautonomy impacting on employee creativity, as well as the crossing-levelinfluence of team conflict on the relationship between job autonomy and intrinsicmotivation.The results showed that: Firstly, a part impact of job autonomy on employeecreativity is transmitted directly. That is, increasing employee job autonomy hasa positive role in promoting creativity; Secondly, A part impact of job autonomyon employee creativity is conducted through the intrinsic motivation to achieve.A higher degree of job autonomy will stimulate intrinsic motivation ofemployees to improve their creativity. A lower degree of job autonomy willreduce the intrinsic motivation of employees, thereby reducing their creativity;Finally, the level of conflict in the work team moderates the relationship betweenjob autonomy and intrinsic motivation. The higher the level of team conflict, thesmaller influence of job autonomy on employees intrinsic motivation. The lowerthe level of team conflict, the stronger influence of job autonomy on employeesintrinsic motivation.