Although creativity research has devoted considerable effort toward identifying the antecedents of creativity, there remain important questions about how organizations can foster creativity through social processes. Drawing from social capital theory, we hypothesize a moderated mediation model that investigates the influence of employee participation in fun activities on individual creativity through workplace friendships. We further hypothesize that the strength of this positive indirect effect is weaker for managers compared with non-managers. Our analysis of data collected from a multi-source, three-wave field study (n = 163 employees) reveals a positive mediation between participation in fun activities and incremental creativity (but not radical creativity) via workplace friendships. The results further support our prediction that this positive indirect effect on incremental creativity is weaker for managers compared with non-managers. Our findings not only highlight the practical and theoretical importance of fun activities in generating novel and useful ideas, but the results also reveal that the benefits derived from fun activities (i.e., strengthened friendships, incremental creativity) are particularly salient for non-managers.

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乐趣、朋友和创造力：社会资本视角

尽管创造力研究在确定创造力的前因方面投入了大量精力，但关于组织如何通过社会过程培养创造力仍然存在重要问题。从社会资本理论出发，我们假设了一个有调节的中介模型，该模型通过工作场所的友谊来调查员工参与有趣的活动对个人创造力的影响。我们进一步假设，与非管理者相比，管理者的这种积极间接影响的强度较弱。我们对从多源、三波实地研究中收集的数据进行分析（n = 163 名员工）揭示了通过职场友谊参与有趣的活动和增加创造力（但不是激进的创造力）之间的积极中介。结果进一步支持了我们的预测，即与非经理相比，经理对增量创造力的这种积极间接影响较弱。我们的研究结果不仅强调了有趣的活动在产生新颖和有用的想法方面的实践和理论重要性，而且结果还表明，有趣的活动所带来的好处（即加强友谊、增加创造力）对非管理者来说尤其显着。