Narcissistic Supervisor and Employee Creativity: The Mediating Role of Epistemic Motivation and Power Distance

• Main Authors: LEE, MING-JU, 李明儒
• Other Authors: FAN, HSUEH-LIANG
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ka259f

碩士 === 東吳大學 === 企業管理學系 === 106 === The creativity of employee is the mainly factor that enterprise can get competitive advantage even in turbulent environments, therefore, more and more organizations would like to know what kind of supervisor will affect the creativity of employee. However, previous research mostly focused on the positive traits of supervisors, the negative traits are less explored, such as narcissism. In recent years, many supervisors have shown the narcissism, and thus the narcissism has been concerned by the scholars, but the trait of narcissistic supervisor would help or hinder the employee creativity, the current study did not reach a consensus. In view of this, the study attempted to explore the relationship between the trait of narcissistic supervisor and the creativity of employee, and add the employee epistemic motivation and supervisor power distance as a positive and negative mediating role. To further verify this relationship, for the 10 domestic small and medium enterprises, the supervisors and employees will be matched with each other to conduct a questionnaire survey, total received 82 questionnaires of supervisors and 212 questionnaires of employees. In the statistical analysis, the study used regression analysis, and self-report and observer-report were used to measure the creativity of employee. The conclusions are as below: 1.There is a significant positive relationship between the trait of narcissistic supervisor and the self-reported creativity of employee, the trait of narcissistic supervisor and the observer-reported creativity of employee. 2.There is a significant positive relationship between the trait of narcissistic supervisor and the employee epistemic motivation. 3.The trait of narcissistic supervisor can improve employee epistemic motivation, and have a positive impact on the self-reported creativity of employee. 4.There is a significant positive relationship between the trait of narcissistic supervisor and the supervisor power distance. Based on the above conclusions, the study validated the relationship between the trait of narcissistic supervisor and the creativity of employee and its mediating role, and provides specific suggestions for management and practice for enterprises who want to use narcissistic supervisors and those who wish to improve their creativity of employee. Keywords: The trait of narcissistic supervisor, Employee creativity, Epistemic motivation, Power distance