Two Sides of the Same Coin: Disentangling the Contrary Effects of Perspective Taking on Employee Creativity

Professor Ng, Thomas Wai Hung   (Principal Investigator (PI))

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2018-01-01

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Two Sides of the Same Coin: Disentangling the Contrary Effects of Perspective Taking on Employee Creativity

creative goals, creativity, interdependence, perspective taking

Management

Business Studies (B)

17500317

General Research Fund (GRF)

2017

Completed

1) To test a process model that relates individual-level PT to employee creativity for the first time; 2) To demonstrate that seeking the best ideas and seeking the most accepted ideas are distinct creative goals, a distinction often ignored; 3) To jointly consider the cognitive and affective PT processes, which has seldom occurred in previous studies; 4) To propose and test for the first time the theoretical premise that PT can both increase and decrease employees’ creativity, thus giving greater complexity to the widely assumed functional view of the effects of PT at work; 5) To examine the workplace and social context in which PT occurs by addressing the distinct roles of task interdependence and emotional interdependence in the process model.; 6) To illustrate the dynamic effects of PT by investigating how within-person changes in employees’ PT are related to within-person changes in employee creativity over time.