Positive group affective tone and team creativity: Negative group affective tone and team trust as boundary conditions
研究基于多群体层面理论，发现积极群体情感基调仅在团队信任低时促进创造力，信任高时反而有负作用；且该正向效应仅在信任低且消极情感基调高时出现。
Summary Drawing on multiple group‐level theories, we explored boundary conditions of the relationship between positive group affective tone (PGAT) and team creativity. We collected data from members and leaders of 68 research and development teams and performed hierarchical linear modeling analyses to test our hypotheses. Consistent with the “group‐centrism” perspective, we found that PGAT was beneficial for team creativity only when team trust was low ; when trust was high , PGAT had a negative relationship with team creativity. In accord with the “dual‐tuning” perspective, the positive effect of PGAT on creativity was present only when team trust was low but negative group affective tone was high . We discussed the theoretical and practical implications. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.