 How does leader self-deprecating humor affect creative performance? The role of creative self-efficacy and power distanceLe Tang and Shiyu Sun Finance Research Letters, 2021, vol. 42, issue C Abstract: Creative performance affects the achievement of an enterprise's financial objectives to a great extent. As the agent of an organization, a leader's influence on followers’ creative performance has been widely examined. In recent years, testing humorous leadership as one of the new leadership styles has related it to employee attitudes and behaviors. However, since the concept includes both positive and negative aspects, the effects of leader humor have not met in a consistent conclusion. Therefore, this study seeks to investigate the role of the unique aspect of leader humor, namely, self-deprecating humor, on subordinates’ creative performance in a Chinese context. The empirical results show that leader self-deprecating humor negatively relates to employee creative performance, through employee creative self-efficacy, and employee power distance moderates the process. Keywords: Leader self-deprecating humor; Creative performance; Creative self-efficacy; Power distance; PROCESS macro; Moderated mediation model (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:finlet:v:42:y:2021:i:c:s1544612321003548 DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2021.102344 Access Statistics for this article Finance Research Letters is currently edited by R. Gençay More articles in Finance Research Letters from Elsevier |
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