ABSTRACT

Team creativity is critical for organization survival, and the quality of team creativity depends on the ideas provided by team members as well as the discussion processes through which teams realize the potential of these ideas. On the basis of the Motivated Information Processing in Groups (MIP-G) model, which suggests that the quality of group decisions is a function of the interaction between epistemic motivation and social motivation, we examined (1) the effects that teams’ need for cognition (an antecedent of epistemic motivation) and (2) the effects that a team’s psychological safety climate (an antecedent of social motivation) have on team members’ information elaboration. We hypothesized that, through information elaboration, these two factors interact with each other in their effects on team creativity. A survey of 106 teams from 87 companies was conducted, and the results of the subsequent analysis of data provide some support for the MIP-G model. Psychological safety climate and the need for cognition were positively associated with team creativity through information elaboration. However, we did not find support for the interaction effect, in contrast to assumptions in the MIP-G model.

摘要

团队创造力对于组织的生存至关重要，而团队创造力的质量取决于团队成员提供的想法以及团队实现这些想法潜力的讨论过程。基于群体动机信息处理 (MIP-G) 模型，该模型表明群体决策的质量是认知动机和社会动机之间相互作用的函数，我们研究了 (1) 团队需要的影响认知（认知动机的前因）和（2）团队的心理安全气氛（社会动机的前因）对团队成员信息阐述的影响。我们假设，通过信息阐述，这两个因素在对团队创造力的影响方面相互作用。对来自 87 家公司的 106 个团队进行了调查，后续数据分析的结果为 MIP-G 模型提供了一定的支持。通过信息阐述，心理安全氛围和认知需求与团队创造力呈正相关。然而，与 MIP-G 模型中的假设相反，我们没有找到对交互效应的支持。