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

摘要： 作为团队内不容忽视且无处不在的现象之一，建言差异对团队创造力发挥着重要的作用。基于社会信息加工理论，选取团队会话自反性为中介变量，领导团队原型为调节变量，构建了团队建言差异对团队创造力的作用机理模型。采用多来源和时滞式的研究设计，基于75个团队、包括410个成员的配对数据，并采取SPSS 20.0等统计分析软件验证提出的研究假设。研究结果显示：团队建言差异显著负向影响团队创造力；团队会话自反性促进团队创造力，且其在团队建言差异与团队创造力间发挥着中介作用；领导团队原型显著调节团队建言差异与团队会话自反性的关系；领导团队原型显著调节团队会话自反性在团队建言差异与团队创造力间的中介作用，即当领导团队原型水平越低时，团队会话自反性越能在团队建言差异与团队创造力间发挥中介作用。

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