关键词: 团队建言差异, 团队会话自反性, 领导团队原型, 团队创造力

Abstract:

Voice disparity, as a phenomenon that cannot be ignored and ubiquitous in a team, has a critical impact on team creativity. Based upon the social information processing theory, this paper established a theoretical model to explore the effect of team voice disparity on team creativity. Moreover, it also investigated the mediating role of team conversational reflexivity and the moderating role of leader group prototypicality. It adopted multi-source and time-lag research design, based on the paired data of 75 teams including 410 members, and used statistical analysis software such as SPSS 20.0 to verify the proposed research hypothesis. The research findings indicate that first, team voice disparity has a negative impact on team creativity. Second, team conversational reflexivity promotes team creativity, and it plays a mediating role between team voice disparity and team creativity. Third, leader group prototypicality negatively moderates the association between team voice disparity and team conversational reflexivity. Finally, leader group prototypicality moderates the mediated relationship between team voice disparity and team creativity via team conversational reflexivity such that team conversational reflexivity can play a mediating role in the relationship between team voice disparity and team creativity when leader group prototypicality is lower.

Key words: team voice disparity, team conversational reflexivity, leader group prototypicality, team creativity