Cross-National Explorations of the Impact of Affect at Work Using the State-Trait Emotion Measure: A Coordinated Series of Studies in the United States,China, and Romania |
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| Authors: | Edward L Levine Xian Xu Liu-Qin Yang Dan Ispas Horia D Pitariu Ran Bian |
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| Institution: | 1. University of South Florida elevine@usf.edu;3. University of South Florida;4. Portland State University;5. Illinois State University;6. Babes-Bolyai University;7. Beijing Normal University |
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| Abstract: | Drawing on the social information process perspective, we hypothesized that transformational leadership fosters psychological safety climate leading to enhanced individual-level creative process engagement. Furthermore, psychological safety climate was hypothesized to strengthen the relationship between creative process engagement and employee creativity. The hypothesized model was tested with data obtained from a sample of 358 employees and their supervisors from two organizations in the People’s Republic of China. Results of hierarchical linear modeling analysis revealed that transformational leadership influenced creative process engagement via psychological safety climate. Furthermore, psychological safety climate moderated the creative process engagement–creativity relationship such that the relationship was stronger in groups with high rather than low psychological safety climate. |
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