A burgeoning body of research has examined the influence of stable attributes of individuals, teams, and organizations on employee creativity. Events, however, permeate the increasingly dynamic and uncertain business context. To extend the creativity literature, we draw on event system theory to examine whether, when, and how workplace events impact employee creativity. Our findings based on two time-lagged field studies reveal that workplace event novelty and criticality interact to fuel employee improvisation and in turn, employee creativity. The positive relationship between workplace event novelty and employee improvisation is stronger when workplace events are more critical. Our research highlights the value of an event-oriented theory-building approach to investigate dynamic organizational phenomena.

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工作场所的事件和员工的创造力：一项多领域调查

新兴的研究机构研究了个人，团队和组织的稳定属性对员工创造力的影响。但是，事件充斥着日趋动态和不确定的业务环境。为了扩展创造​​力文献，我们使用事件系统理论来研究工作场所事件是否，何时以及如何影响员工的创造力。我们基于两项时间滞后的实地研究得出的结论表明，工作场所事件的新颖性和重要性相互影响，助长了员工即兴发挥，进而激发了员工的创造力。当工作场所事件更为关键时，工作场所事件新颖性与员工即兴创作之间的积极关系就更强。我们的研究强调了一种面向事件的理论构建方法对研究动态组织现象的价值。