Research On The Mechanism Of Design Thinking On Employee Creativity

Employee creativity is an important source for organizations to gain a competitive advantage under the innovation-driven development strategy.The complex and ever-changing external environment places higher requirements on the innovation,flexibility and scalability of the enterprise.Traditional thinking models and problem-solving ways have encountered bottlenecks,enterprises urgently need new mechanisms to cultivate employee creativity."Design",as a creative activity,plays an important role in the development of innovation ability,higher-order thinking ability,and collaboration ability of individual,design thinking,as the core idea behind it,has gradually entered the research field of managers,with the deepening development of the innovation economy.From the perspective of individual cognitive theory,design thinking is a "people-oriented" innovative thinking mode,process,tool and methodology.By improving individual cognitive methods,enterprises can improve the employee’s creativity self-efficacy and the level of individual creativity;With the help of organizational culture,enterprises can cultivate the soil to encourage innovation,guide employees to practice innovation actively,help employees’ cognitive methods and organizational culture complement each other positively.Therefore,this article examines the mediating effects of creative self-efficacy at the individual micro-level,analyzes the regulatory effects of organizational culture at the organization macro-level,and explores how design thinking promotes the improvement of employee creativity.Through empirical research,this study draws the following conclusions:(1)Creative self-efficacy plays a partial intermediary role in the interaction of design thinking and employee creativity;(2)Different dimensions of organizational culture have played a regulating role in the interaction of design thinking and employee creativity,specifically speaking,organizational collectivism plays a positive regulating role in the influence of blending rationality and intuition on employee creativity;organizational individualism plays a negative regulating role in the influence of tolerance of ambiguity and failure on employee creativity;power distance plays a negative regulating role in the influence of interdisciplinary cooperation on employee creativity;power distance plays a negative regulating role in the influence of tolerance of ambiguity and failure on employee creativity;power distance plays a negative regulating role in the influence of blending rationality and intuition on employee creativity.The research has the following contributions:(1)Incorporating organizational environmental factors into the theory of design thinking,breaking through the limitation that existing design thinking researches relatively focus on the individual and team level,and deepening the analysis of mechanisms for employee creativity at the individual and organizational levels in a more comprehensive way;(2)Exploring the regulating roles on the influence of design thinking and employee creativity,which played by different dimensions of organizational culture,helping to re-examine and improve the research context and analysis framework of creativity theory,providing a broader perspective to promote the development of related research in depth;(3)Based on the rich theoretical research,this article provides new ideas for companies to introduce design thinking methodologies to enhance employee creativity.