Social exchange relationships and exchange ideologies of employees and supervisors: A three-way interaction toward employee creativity |
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| Authors: | Soojin Lee Soojung Han Gukdo Byun Seung Yeon Son |
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| Affiliation: | 1. College of Business Administration, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea;2. College of Business and Economics, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA;3. School of Business, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea;4. Graduate School of Defense Management, Korea National Defense University, Nonsan-si, South Korea |
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| Abstract: | This study aims to better understand the effects of social exchange relationships between employees and their organizations (perceived organizational support [POS]), and their leaders (leader–member exchange [LMX]) on their creativity. To this end, we investigated how exchange ideologies of employees and supervisors affect the relationship between POS/LMX and employee creativity using a three-way interaction test. Building on the social exchange theory, the results from our sample of 254 leader–employee dyads indicated that the relationship between POS/LMX and employee creativity is significantly more positive for an employee with strong exchange ideology than for an employee with weak exchange ideology. Moreover, POS and LMX had the strongest positive relationships with creativity when both employees and supervisors had higher levels of exchange ideology. The implications of our results and future research directions are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | creativity exchange ideology LMX POS |
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