A social-structural analysis of employee-organization relationships and team creativity

Liangding Jia; Jason DeFrance Shaw; Tae Youn Park

doi:10.5464/AMBPP.2011.180.a

A social-structural analysis of employee-organization relationships and team creativity

Liangding Jia, Jason DeFrance Shaw, Tae Youn Park

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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Abstract

In this study, we develop and test a structural model of the relationships between employee-organization relationships and team creativity. We argue that mutual investment relationships (an employment relationship in which the employer expressed a high level and broad set of contributions expected of employees along with extensive and long-term inducements offered to employees), relative to other forms, would relate positively to team creativity and that this relationship would be mediated by higher within-team work-related communication density. In addition, we argue that the advantages of higher density would be more effectively mobilized in environments where task complexity is higher. In a two-wave study of 233 work teams in 55 organizations, we find that the mediated effect of employee-organization relationships on team creativity through work-related communication density is stronger when task complexity is high.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Academy of Management 2011 Annual Meeting - West Meets East: Enlightening. Balancing. Transcending, AOM 2011
Publisher	Academy of Management
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5464/AMBPP.2011.180.a
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2011
Externally published	Yes
Event	71st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management - West Meets East: Enlightening, Balancing, Transcending, AOM 2011 - San Antonio, TX, United States Duration: 12 Aug 2011 → 16 Aug 2011

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Conference	71st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management - West Meets East: Enlightening, Balancing, Transcending, AOM 2011
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Antonio, TX
Period	12/08/11 → 16/08/11

Keywords

Communication network
Creativity
Employee-organization relationships
Team

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Management Information Systems
Management of Technology and Innovation
Industrial relations

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A social-structural analysis of employee-organization relationships and team creativity. / Jia, Liangding; Shaw, Jason DeFrance; Park, Tae Youn.
Academy of Management 2011 Annual Meeting - West Meets East: Enlightening. Balancing. Transcending, AOM 2011. Academy of Management, 2011.

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