Research on the Impacts of Servant Leadership on RD Employee Creativity: Based on the Social Information Processing Perspective

摘要

The creativity of R&D employees is a crucial factor of enterprise competitiveness and organizational effectiveness. Leaders in organization have a big influence on R&D employee creativity. This study explores the effect of servant leadership on the creativity of R&D employees with the social information processing and regulatory focus perspective. This study takes 303 R&D staff in a domestic enterprise as research sample and collects data by questionnaire. The research finds that servant leadership is positively related to R&D employees' promotion focus and prevention focus significantly. R&D employees' promotion and prevention focus mediate the relationship between servant leadership and R&D employee creativity. Leader-member exchange moderates the relationship of servant leadership-R&D employees' promotion focus and it also moderates the relationship between servant leadership and R&D employees' prevention focus. This study can not only enrich the study of R&D employee creativity, but also has practical value to corporations.