Impact Of Leader-member Exchange Differentiation On Team Creativity And Its Mechanism

Under the background of globalization and the knowledge economy,one of the major problems that Chinese enterprises must solve is to innovate.Compared with the individual's ability to innovate,the team as the most basic unit in the enterprise in the Chinese organization,its creativity seems to be even more lacking.Team creativity cannot be understood as a simple addition to individual creativity.It can be further enhanced in the sharing and discussion during team members.Differences between members and leadership relationships may affect team members' willingness to discuss and share.Chinese “circle” phenomenon is more common,and its influence is also more pronounced under the cultural background of higher power distance and official popularity.Therefore,exploring the potential impact of leader-member exchange(LMX)differentiation on team creativity in the context of China has important implications for further understanding and enhancing the team's creativity in Chinese organizations.In order to further analyze the LMX differentiation mechanism of influence on team creativity,team creativity in this study as a starting point,from the perspective of social cognition construction team,with the mediation model to adjust effect of contrast and separation of LMX differentiation,constructs the theoretical framework of LMX team creativity alienation effect.This study is based on the theory that put forward a series of research hypotheses,including the LMX direct effect of alienation influence team creativity;reveal team psychological safety,team collective efficacy difference influence mediating mechanism of team creativity in LMX;analyzing the difference between team creativity degree effect of LMX differentiation in different environment,regulation of organizational justice.In order to validate the research hypothesis,this paper adopts questionnaires to conduct empirical analysis.Employees of 52 teams from different companies were issued electronic questionnaires,and 280 valid questionnaires were collected.SPSS was used to test the scale.The results showed that the scale had good reliability and validity and ensured the validity of the data.Then use the statistical method of regression analysis to test the research hypothesis.The results of the empirical study reveal the relationship between LMX differentiation and team creativity.Empirical analysis shows that the LMX difference of negative and significant effects on team creativity;LMX differentiation through team psychological safety and team collective efficacy influence these two psychological cognitive mechanism of job performance;when employees in organizational justice in the environment with high LMX,the difference of negative relationship to weaken theinfluence team creativity,and when the employee is in organizational justice was lower in the environment,LMX differentiation to affect the relationship between negative enhancement of team creativity.Therefore,in order to bring maximum benefits to enterprises,leaders on the one hand will put different employees in suitable positions,and on the one hand,we should pay attention to the psychological state of members.According to the empirical analysis results,organizational leaders can pay attention to promotion and salary fairness,improve the working environment and staff,to promote effectively enhance team creativity and guide employees to rational allocation of cognitive resources and other practical management strategies,has strong theoretical and practical significance.