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Cognitive Team Diversity and Individual Team Member Creativity: A Cross-Level Interaction
Academy of Management (2012)
  • Shung Jae Shin, Portland State University
  • Tae-Yeol Kim
  • Jeong-Yeon Lee
  • Lin Bian
Abstract
We theorized and tested the conditions under which cognitive team diversity is positively related to individual team member creativity. Hierarchical linear modeling results using 316 employees on 68 teams from Chinese companies indicated that a team member's creative self-efficacy moderated the relationship between cognitive team diversity and individual creativity: this relationship was positive only when creative self-efficacy was high. Further, “transformational leadership” moderated the relationship in such a way that cognitive team diversity was positively related to individual creativity only when transformational leadership was high.
Publication Date
2012
DOI
10.5465/amj.2010.0270
Publisher Statement
Copyright (2012) Academy of Management
Citation Information
Shin, S. J., Kim, T. Y., Lee, J. Y., & Bian, L. (2012). Cognitive team diversity and individual team member creativity: A cross-level interaction. Academy of Management Journal, 55(1), 197-212.