Research On Effects Of Team Autonomy And Inter-team Competitive Climate On Team Creativity

In order to survive competition and succeed on external markets, firms areincreasingly relying on team creativity to cultivate organizational innovation. Thepurpose of this study is to examine the interactive effects of extrinsic motivationand intrinsic motivation in predicting team creativity by investigating the separateand interactive effects of team autonomy and inter-team competitive climate onteam creativity through the mediating effects of team creative efficacy.Based on intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation theory, it was arguedthat team autonomy and inter-team competitive climate would respectively havepositive effects on team creativity, and the positive relationship would bemediated by team creative efficacy. Furthermore, it was also believed that theinteraction of team autonomy and inter-team competitive climate would producestronger positive effects on team creativity than they separately did.The empirical research was then conducted with questionnaires to collectdata and test the proposed hypotheses. The final valid sample consisted of86R&D teams from10IT firms. The results of hierarchical regression analysisindicated that team creative efficacy fully mediated the positive relationshipbetween team autonomy and team creativity, inter-team competitive climate andteam creativity. However, the interactive effects of team autonomy and inter-teamcompetitive climate on team creativity were not significant.In the end of the study, the understanding of the findings, the theoreticalcontributions, practical implication, the limitation of the present research, as wellas the future research direction were discussed.