Shared Leadership Andemployee Creativity

The global wave of innovation and the prosperity of the Internet economy have posed greater challenges to the survival and development of the organization.In order to stimulate the innovation vitality of the organization and gain the advantage in the current innovation competition,the management practice focuses on the staff innovation and creativity.In the meantime,teamwork and project-based approaches are becoming more and more common in innovative companies.On the one hand,the interaction and sharing within the team becomes more and more the source that inspires staff to create vitality and inspires employees to burst out innovation.On the other hand,the traditional top-down leadership gradually fails to meet and adapt to the new interaction and influence among employees.Within the team,employees take the initiative to participate in,self-management and mutual leadership of a bottom-up informal collective leadership model,that is,shared leadership is gradually emerging.Therefore,this study focuses on the relationship between shared leadership and employee creativity and its mechanism.This research studies 13 domestic enterprises,covering 74 teams and 401 individuals,and verifies the research hypothesis through cross-layer data analysis.First of all,the study verifies that the shared leadership and employee creativity are positively correlated,combined with the composition theory of creativity,shared leadership can provide individuals with the related field skills,creativity-related skills and work incentives,thereby enhancing their creativity.In addition,based on the theory of self-determination,the study found that psychological ownership plays a bridge role in sharing the relationship between leadership and employee creativity.Sharing leadership enhances individual's "sense of ownership",ie,psychological ownership,in the organization by enhancing skills in the relevant fields of the individual and with creativity-related skills and work incentives.As an important psychological incentive,psychological ownership can affect individual creativity positively.Finally,this study proposes that based on the theory of job characteristics,the positive influence of shared leadership on staff's psychological ownership will be enhanced and the indirect impact on staff creativity will also be enhanced under the importance of high tasks.In summary,this study verifies the cross-level impact of shared leadership on employee creativity,validates the intermediary role of psychological ownership from the perspective of employee psychological perception,and discusses the task significance and the organization-based self-esteem in the border effect of intermediary mechanism,and the task significance has been verified.This study expands the cross-layer research on shared leadership and at the same time,enriches the research on the intermediary mechanism and boundary conditions of shared leadership on creativity by focusing on individual psychological feelings of employees.Future research can incorporate organizational layer variables to further discuss the relationship between shared leadership and employee creativity.It can also extend the research horizon to discuss changes over time in the relationship between shared leadership and other variables in a team.In management practice,it is suggested that managers should pay more attention to the shared leadership and give more encouragement to employees for their share leadership behaviors.In the management of employees 'creativity,more attention should be paid to individual employees' psychological feelings and employees' inner motivation from task significanc.