How does leader self-deprecating humor affect creative performance? The role of creative self-efficacy and power distance

Tang, Le; Sun, Shiyu

doi:10.1016/j.frl.2021.102344

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“…Leaders humor not only stimulates innovative behavior (Tang and Sun, 2021), but also leads to deviant behavior (Yam et al, 2018;Shi et al, 2021). Bootleg innovation is the combination of these two behaviors.…”

Section: Theoretical Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A significant double-edged effect exists (Yam et al, 2018). Tang and Sun (2021) found that leader humor was conducive to employee innovation. However, Yam et al (2018) and Shi et al (2021) showed that leader humor promoted bootlegging.…”

Section: Theoretical Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When leaders humorously communicate with their employees, owing to their special, exemplary position in the organization, employees will receive, learn, and imitate the benign violation messages, which ultimately influence their own behaviors. Specifically, leader humor increases employees' imitative motivation to engage in benign behavior violation of organizational norms and creates a relaxed and enjoyable work environment that promotes innovation (Tang and Sun, 2021). Leader humor conveys to employees that violating organizational norms may be permissible when their creative ideas and novelty are not formally recognized by the organization (Yam et al, 2018).…”

Section: Theoretical Background and Hypothesis Development Leader Hum...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Academic exploration of the positive aspects of leader humor included employee performance, attitudes, emotions, behaviors (Jing and Zhou, 2019;Kong et al, 2019). Recently, Yam et al (2018) and Tang and Sun (2021) found that leader humor not only stimulates innovative behavior but also leads to deviant behavior. And bootleg innovation is the spontaneous innovation conducted in a deviant manner without the formal support of the organization, which is carried out by employees to improve organizational benefits (Criscuolo et al, 2014).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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As above, so below? The influence of leader humor on bootleg innovation: The mechanism of psychological empowerment and affective trust in leaders

Zheng

Mai²,

Zhou³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Leadership humor is widely used in management practice and has aroused extensive discussion in academia. On account of the two-sided influence of leader humor on employees, its double-edged sword effect on employee behavior has been put more emphasis. As a benign violation of organizational norms and a kind of pro-organizational violation, respectively, both Leadership humor and employee bootleg innovation have the characteristics of violating organizational norms, but few studies have examined the relationship between them. Based on benign violation theory and social cognition theory, this study conducted a two-stage questionnaire survey and statistical-econometric analysis of 324 employees in 23 IT and manufacturing technology companies in Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Beijing, and Shanghai, China. It not only examined the relationship between leadership humor and employee bootleg innovation but also tested a moderated mediation model. Results show that leadership humor is positively correlated with psychological empowerment and employee bootleg innovation, namely, leadership humor indirectly and positively affects employee bootleg innovation through psychological empowerment. Moreover, the indirect effect is positively regulated by leadership emotional trust. The higher the emotional trust of employees to leadership, the stronger the mediating role of psychological empowerment between leader humor and bootleg innovation behavior. The study enriches the existing path of research on the double-edged impact of leader humor on employee behavior, expands the boundary conditions of the relationship between empowered cognitive mediation and employee bootleg innovation and provides enlightenments for Chinese leaders to effectively apply the tool of leader humor.

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Section: Theoretical Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theoretical Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theoretical Background and Hypothesis Development Leader Hum...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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As above, so below? The influence of leader humor on bootleg innovation: The mechanism of psychological empowerment and affective trust in leaders

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Mai²,

Zhou³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Paradoxical leadership aims to fulfill organizational and individual needs, in which effort has a positive effect on employee behavior and attitudes. Previous studies have shown that creative self-efficacy is a prerequisite for creativity [ 59 , 60 ] and employee creative performance [ 61 ]. Therefore, creative self-efficacy encourages employee creativity, both directly and indirectly.…”

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Paradoxical Leadership and Involvement in Creative Task via Creative Self-Efficacy: A Moderated Mediation Role of Task Complexity

Jung

Kang

Choi

2022

Behavioral Sciences

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Modern organizational environments encounter serious competition and paradoxical situations. This study discusses the effect of paradoxical leadership on overcoming competitive and paradoxical situations happening in the Korean workplace. More specifically, it investigates the dynamic relationship between paradoxical leadership and involvement in creative tasks in a Korean context and examines whether creative self-efficacy positively mediates this relationship. Our research design addresses the moderating role and moderated mediating role of task complexity in the relationship between paradoxical leadership and the involvement in creative tasks via creative self-efficacy. The main hypotheses were tested by using a cross-sectional design and administering questionnaires to 268 employees working in Korean firms. Empirical analysis revealed that paradoxical leadership is positively related to involvement in creative tasks and creative self-efficacy and that creative self-efficacy positively mediated the relationship between paradoxical leadership and involvement in creative tasks. Importantly, as the relationship between paradoxical leadership and creative self-efficacy depends on task complexity, the mediated relationship was effective under high task complexity. Uncovering the relationship between paradoxical leadership and involvement in creative tasks with the mediating role of creative self-efficacy and the moderated mediating role of task complexity can provide useful theoretical and managerial implications.

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UGC’s self-deprecation humor and sustainable brand support attitude on social media: expansion of the perspective of affective events theory

Chen,

Yan

2024

Behaviour & Information Technology

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How does leader self-deprecating humor affect creative performance? The role of creative self-efficacy and power distance

Cited by 10 publications

References 22 publications

As above, so below? The influence of leader humor on bootleg innovation: The mechanism of psychological empowerment and affective trust in leaders

As above, so below? The influence of leader humor on bootleg innovation: The mechanism of psychological empowerment and affective trust in leaders

Paradoxical Leadership and Involvement in Creative Task via Creative Self-Efficacy: A Moderated Mediation Role of Task Complexity

UGC’s self-deprecation humor and sustainable brand support attitude on social media: expansion of the perspective of affective events theory

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