| The world is now in the midst of a major change unprecedented in a century,and China needs innovation-driven forces more than ever before.At the same time,the accelerated evolution of domestic industrial change has raised higher levels of innovation expectations for enterprises.In this context,employees,as important subjects of corporate innovation,bring their creativity into play as an important source of innovation output.In addition,over the past three years,COVID-19 has changed the business model of enterprises and renewed the way and content of employees’ work,undoubtedly bringing great uncertainty to their employees.Coupled with the increasingly fierce competition in the industry and the accelerating pace of work,employees,as the end-bearers of all kinds of stress,are under greater time pressure.In this regard,this paper explores the mechanism between time pressure and employees’ creativity to inspire managers to effectively stimulate employees’ creativity under such special pressure scenarios and help enterprises to achieve innovative development.Based on the theory of social cognition,this paper studies the influence of time pressure on employees’ creativity,trying to reveal the deep mechanism of the influence of the former on the latter.This paper proposes that the individual cognitive variable of creative self-efficacy,plays a mediating role in the relationship between the two,while the external environmental variable of temporal leadership plays a moderating role in the relationship between the two.The paper is based on an online and offline questionnaire survey conducted among employees in Shandong,Beijing and other places.360 valid questionnaires were obtained over a period of three months.Based on this,data analysis and hypothesis testing were conducted with the help of SPSS and AMOS statistical software,and the following conclusions were drawn using stratum-by-stratum regression analysis:(1)The relationship between time pressure and employees’ creativity and creative self-efficacy is all inverted U-shaped.In other words,when time pressure does not exceed the critical point,the higher the level of time pressure,the higher the employees’ creativity and creative self-efficacy;while when time pressure exceeds the critical point,the higher the level of time pressure,the lower the employees’ creativity and creative self-efficacy.(2)Creative self-efficacy plays a mediating role in the inverted U-shaped relationship between time pressure and employees’ creativity.(3)Temporal leadership negatively moderates the inverted U-shaped relationship between time pressure,employees’ creativity and creative self-efficacy.That is,the stronger the temporal leadership,the weaker the inverted Ushaped relationship between time pressure and employees’ creativity and creative selfefficacy,and the flatter the inverted U-shaped curve.This paper carries out research on the mechanism of time pressure’s influence on employees’ creativity,which both enriches the theoretical research on the relevant variables and reminds companies to pay attention to time pressure management and temporal leadership.On the one hand,enterprises should give the right amount of time pressure to motivate employees to enhance their sense of creative self-efficacy,thus increasing the incidence and success rate of innovation and creativity.On the other hand,companies should give full play to the positive role of temporal leadership to help employees coordinate their time resources,with a view to enhancing employees’ creativity and creative self-efficacy in excessive time pressure scenarios. |
