All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy: How and when supervisor bottom‐line mentality hinders employee creativity
基于资源保存理论，研究主管底线心态（只关注经济目标而忽视其他优先事项）如何通过降低员工心理可用性来抑制其创造力，并发现心理脱离能缓冲这种负面效应。
Abstract Based on the conservation of resources theory, this study investigates how and when supervisor bottom‐line mentality (i.e., one‐dimensional thinking that exclusively focuses on economic bottom‐line goals to the neglect of competing priorities) relates to employee creativity. We propose that supervisor bottom‐line mentality reduces employee psychological availability, resulting in decreased employee creativity. Additionally, psychological detachment, which allows employees to recover from job strain and to regain physical energy and psychological resources, serves as a buffer that weakens the indirect negative relationship between supervisor bottom‐line mentality and employee creativity through psychological availability. Empirical analyses using time‐lagged data from 540 employees of a hospital in eastern China (sample A) and 306 academic graduate students in Chinese universities (sample B) support all hypotheses. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.