ABSTRACT

The present study examined the effects of workplace mood states on employee creativity. Workplace mood was classified into four categories based on valence and activation to address a recent debate regarding the ambivalent effects of positive and negative moods on creativity and to examine the significance of the activation level of a given mood. To clarify the mood–creativity relationship, the four kinds of moods were proposed to have distinct effects on proactive and responsive engagement in creativity. The research hypotheses were tested using the data collected from 292 employees and 109 managers of Korean organizations. Multilevel path-analytic model indicated that positive and negative activating moods were positively related to proactive and responsive creativity, respectively. The effect of positive activating mood was mediated by ambiguity tolerance and team identification. Positive deactivating mood was negatively related to both types of creativity, whereas negative deactivating mood was unrelated to either type.

摘要

本研究检验了工作场所情绪状态对员工创造力的影响。根据效价和激活，工作场所情绪可分为四类，以解决最近关于正负情绪对创造力的矛盾影响的辩论，并研究给定情绪激活水平的重要性。为了阐明情绪与创造力之间的关系，提出了四种情绪对积极主动地参与创造力有不同的影响。使用从韩国组织的292名员工和109名经理中收集的数据对研究假设进行了检验。多层次路径分析模型表明，积极和消极的激活情绪分别与主动和响应的创造力呈正相关。积极的积极情绪的影响是由歧义容忍度和团队认同介导的。积极的消极情绪与两种创造力均呈负相关，而消极的消极情绪与这两种创造力均无关。