Abstract
Researchers have examined the effects of multiple leadership styles on team creativity but have yet to examine how team leader’s work attitudes would influence team creativity. Drawing on social learning theory, we explored how team leader’s job involvement would enhance team creativity through improving team members’ average job involvement. Using a sample of 101 knowledge-based teams from a Chinese state-owned media technology company, we found that team leader’s job involvement could promote team members’ average job involvement, and then enhance team creativity. In addition, team leader’s prosocial motivation and mean leader-member exchange (LMX) could strengthen the positive relationship between team leader’s job involvement and team members’ average job involvement, and also strengthen the indirect positive relationship between team leader’s job involvement and team creativity via team members’ average job involvement. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.
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