What Makes a Creative Team Player? A Social Dilemma Perspective on External Regulation and Creativity

Journal of Business and Psychology - Tập 38 - Trang 671-688 - 2022
March L. To1, Catherine K. Lam2, Xu Huang3, Rajiv K. Amarnani1
1School of Business, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
3School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

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Creativity is important for a group’s success, and thus, groups often demand that their members contribute creativity by setting up group goals. Group goal external regulation arises when individual members feel that their behavior is externally initiated and enforced. While research from the self-determination perspective suggests that such external regulation undermines creativity, emerging research also suggests the opposite: external regulation has motivational functions boosting creativity. To integrate these seemingly contradictory perspectives, we developed a contingency model (based on social dilemma theory) to explain the impacts of group goal external regulation. Specifically, conceiving creativity in the individual-group context of multiple goals, we suggest that group goal external regulation can prompt or hinder individual member creativity, depending on their individual goal progress (“concern for me”) and group identification (“concern for us”). We found support from two studies that when group identification is high, individuals demonstrate higher levels of creativity, irrespective of their individual goal progress and group goal external regulation experienced. When group identification is low, individuals demonstrate more contingent responses—that is, external regulation is positively (negatively) related to individual member creativity when their individual goal progress is poor (good).

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