Abstract
The relationship between humble leadership and creativity is an emerging research topic in the context of organizational change, but most of the previous studies were limited to a single level. We argue that it is necessary to distinguish between individual - focused and team - focused humble leadership and their unique influences on individual and team level scientific creativity to fully understand how team leaders stimulate science and technology innovation effectively. Using multi - level data from 404 science and engineering undergraduates of 100 science and technology innovation teams across 78 universities in China, we examine the independent and interactive effects of multi - level focused humility leadership on individual and team scientific creativity. The results show that: at the individual level, individual - focused humble leadership has a positive effect on individual scientific creativity, which is mediated by individual perspective taking. At the team level, team - focused humble leadership has a positive effect on team scientific creativity, and team perspective taking mediates this positive effect. Furthermore, team perspective taking constructs a cross - level situational factor, which not only moderates the effect of individual perspective taking on individual scientific creativity, but also moderates the indirect effect of individual - focused humble leadership on individual scientific creativity through individual perspective taking. The above effects are stronger when team perspective taking is high. Finally, the theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
| Translated title of the contribution | An investigation of humble leadership on scientific creativity from the multi - level perspective |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Pages (from-to) | 1630-1640 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Studies in Science of Science |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2022 |