Idiosyncratic deals (‘i-deals’, which include customized work arrangements and resources) have been found to motivate R&D employees. However, less effort has been devoted to exploring the uncertain consequences of receiving i-deals at work, such as violation of leaders’ orders to stop working on certain new ideas (creative deviance). Drawing on the uniqueness theory, we hypothesize that receiving i-deals indirectly relates to the creative deviance of R&D employee through psychological entitlement. Furthermore, we propose that an R&D employee’s conformity value weakens this indirect relationship. Using a multisource time-lagged survey study (Study 1) and an experimental scenario study (Study 2), we found consistent evidence that psychological entitlement mediates the indirect relationship between i-deals and employee creative deviance, and this relationship is contingent on the conformity value of the employee. Our research provides new insights for both scholars and practitioners in R&D management to understand the possible consequences of using i-deals to motivate R&D employees.

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异质交易和创造性偏差：心理权利的中介作用

已经发现特殊交易（“i-deals”，包括定制的工作安排和资源）可以激励研发员工。然而，很少有人致力于探索在工作中接受 i-deals 的不确定后果，例如违反领导者停止研究某些新想法的命令（创造性偏差）。借鉴唯一性理论，我们假设接受 i-deals 与研发人员通过心理权利的创造性偏差间接相关。此外，我们建议研发人员的从众价值观削弱了这种间接关系。使用多源时滞调查研究（研究 1）和实验情景研究（研究 2），我们发现一致的证据表明心理权利在 i-deals 和员工创造性偏差之间的间接关系中起中介作用，这种关系取决于员工的从众价值观。我们的研究为研发管理的学者和从业者提供了新的见解，以了解使用 i-deals 来激励研发员工的可能后果。