Enhancing employee creativity via individual skill development and team knowledge sharing: Influences of dual‐focused transformational leadership
研究基于高科技企业多源数据，发现双焦点变革型领导通过个人技能发展提升个人创造力，通过团队知识共享提升团队创造力，且知识共享跨层调节个人焦点领导与创造力的关系。
Summary Addressing the challenges faced by team leaders in fostering both individual and team creativity, this research developed and tested a multilevel model connecting dual‐focused transformational leadership (TFL) and creativity and incorporating intervening mechanisms at the two levels. Using multilevel, multisource survey data from individual members, team leaders, and direct supervisors in high‐technology firms, we found that individual‐focused TFL had a positive indirect effect on individual creativity via individual skill development, whereas team‐focused TFL impacted team creativity partially through its influence on team knowledge sharing. We also found that knowledge sharing constituted a cross‐level contextual factor that moderated the relationship among individual‐focused TFL, skill development, and individual creativity. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of this research and offer suggestions for future research. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.