This study examined a curvilinear and moderated relationship between transformational leadership and employee creative performance in a real-world setting by drawing from the too-much-of-a-good-thing effect and the substitutes for leadership perspectives.,We used multisource data collected from 232 employees and their immediate supervisors to test all hypotheses.,We found empirical support for an inverted U-shaped relationship between transformational leadership and employee creative performance. Moreover, job factor (i.e. job formalization) and individual differences (i.e. power distance) moderated the curvilinear relationship, such that the curvilinear relationship was more pronounced with lower job formalization or higher power distance of employees.,Our findings shed light on the inconsistent reports of transformational leadership's effects on employee creativity in previous studies. We extended substitutes for leadership perspective by providing a more systematic view for future research on how leadership and its substitutes jointly influence employee outcomes.

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变革型领导与员工创造力之间的曲线关系

这项研究通过过多的实物效果和替代领导力的角度，考察了现实环境中变革型领导力与员工创造力之间的曲线和适度关系。我们使用收集的多源数据由232名员工及其直属上司来检验所有假设。我们发现，经验支持了变革型领导与员工创造力之间呈倒U型关系。此外，工作因素（即工作形式化）和个体差异（即权力距离）缓和了曲线关系，使得曲线关系在较低的工作形式化或较高的雇员权力距离下更为明显。我们的发现为不一致的报告提供了启示变革型领导力” 在以前的研究中对员工创造力的影响。我们为领导力及其替代品如何共同影响员工绩效的未来研究提供更系统的观点，从而扩展了领导力替代品的视角。