Creativity During Threat to Organizational Survival: The Influence of Employee Creativity on Downsizing Survival Selection
研究发现在组织面临生存威胁时，员工的渐进式创造力通过提升管理者对其工作绩效的评价，增加其裁员中幸存的机会；而激进式创造力则相反，会降低幸存概率。
Although research consistently shows that employee creativity contributes to positive outcomes for teams and organizations, we have limited insight into how employee creativity shapes the outcomes of those employees who demonstrate such creativity, particularly in the context of environmental uncertainties. Drawing from event system theory and threat rigidity theory, we argue that under a threat to organizational survival, incremental creativity has a positive, and radical creativity has a negative, indirect effect on downsizing survival selection via manager evaluations of employee job performance. Study 1 uses a unique three-wave, three-source field study ( n 1 = 186) to provide support for our hypotheses. Studies 2 and 3 use experimental data ( n 2 = 410, n 3 = 565) involving different scenarios of threats to organizational survival (i.e., organization’s innovation failure, competitor’s successful innovation) that provide further support for the hypothesized effects of radical creativity on manager evaluations of employee job performance. Post-hoc analyses reveal novel insights into how managers’ creativity preferences can influence their evaluation of the job performance of employees who demonstrate incremental creativity during threatening events.