People are more creative on some days than others. Studying how individuals generate creative ideas from day to day could contribute to knowledge regarding the causes of such within‐person variations and have practical implications for improving employee creativity across time. By adopting a dynamic resource allocation perspective and a repeated‐measure diary design, we developed and examined a theoretical model focusing on the within‐person processes of employee creativity. Specifically, we hypothesized that momentary role‐breadth self‐efficacy predicts daily changes in increasing job challenges, which, in turn, predicts daily changes in employee creativity, and that the latter relationship is accentuated by decreasing hindering demands. Results, based on 818 pairs of matched morning–afternoon observations from 91 employees over 10 workdays, provided support for our predictions. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these results for improving employee daily creativity.

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制定工作需求和员工创造力：日记研究

人们在某些日子比其他日子更有创造力。研究个人每天如何产生创意的想法可能有助于人们了解这种人际差异的原因，并且对提高员工的创造力具有实际意义。通过采用动态资源分配的观点和重复测量的日记设计，我们开发并研究了侧重于员工创造力的内部流程的理论模型。具体来说，我们假设暂时的角色广度自我效能能预测日渐增加的工作挑战，进而预测员工创造力的日常变化，并且后者的关系会因减少阻碍性需求而加剧。结果是基于91个员工在10个工作日内进行的818对早/下午配对观察，为我们的预测提供了支持。我们讨论了这些结果对改善员工日常创造力的理论和实践意义。