AUTHOR=Wang Xiaohong , Wang Meng , Xu Feng 

TITLE=The role of synergistic interplay among proactive personality, leader creativity expectations, and role clarity in stimulating employee creativity

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.699411

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.699411

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=This study clarifies the influence of proactive personality on employee creativity by investigating creativity-related expectations in leaders and role clarity in employees. Questionnaires were distributed to obtain 290 leader-employee dyads from China to examine hypotheses via conditional process analysis. Different from our hypothesis, the results show that proactive personality has a positive effect on employee creativity, the leader’s expectations of creativity did not play a significant moderating role on the relationship between proactive personality and employee creativity. The interaction between leader creativity expectations and role clarity has a significant moderating effect on the relationship between proactive personality and employee creativity. These findings are discussed in terms of their theoretical and practical significance.