The Empirical Study of Curvlinear Relation between Creative Time Pressure and Creative Performance

• Main Authors: Tsai Ying Husan, 蔡瑩璇
• Other Authors: Hung Tsang Kai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11026289387025285011

碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 人力資源管理研究所 === 96 === Abstract In Harvard Business Review, Amabile, Constance, and Steven (2002) proposed the idea of “creativity under the gun” indicating that most managers insist that employees do their creative work under tight deadlines. Others consider that great creativity takes time to create. In competitive environment, managers often fall in the myth of creative time pressure. When creativity is under the gun, do you believe that it will spur people on to great leaps of insight or people will end up getting killed. Up to the present, seldom do they focus on curvilinear relationship between time pressure and creative performance. In addition, the study cites the idea of “human agency” proposed by Badura in 2000, and discusses the mediating effect on the curvilinear relationship. Therefore, the study aims at several conditions as follows: (1) There will be an inverted U-shaped relation between creative time pressure and creative performance. (2) the mediating effect of creative self-efficacy on emotional ambivalence and creative performance. (3) Creative self-efficacy will mediate the curvilinear relationship between creative time pressure and creative performance. In the study, the target sample is the work team from the top 1000 manufactures and service companies based on the Common Wealth Magazine, 2006. Each work team has to fill out 5 questionnaires (five for the team manager and five for the team manber). Two hundred forty three valid questionnaires were colleted from ninety companies that are empirically analyzed by the methods of hierarchical multiple regression. The findings include: (1) The effect of creative time pressure on creativity are positive and linear. (2) Creative self-efficacy has full mediating effect on emotional ambivalence and creative performance. (3) Creative self-efficacy has partial mediating effect on the linear relationship between creative time pressure and creative performance. Finally, the study will confirm the hypotheses and explore relevant statements on both theory and practice.