Does Supervisor’s Moral Courage to Go Beyond Compliance Have a Role in the Relationships Between Teamwork Quality, Team Creativity, and Team Idea Implementation?

Carlos Ferreira Peralta (), Maria Francisca Saldanha (), Paulo Nuno Lopes (), Paulo Renato Lourenço () and Leonor Pais ()
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Carlos Ferreira Peralta: University of East Anglia
Maria Francisca Saldanha: Catholic University of Portugal
Paulo Nuno Lopes: Catholic University of Portugal
Paulo Renato Lourenço: University of Coimbra
Leonor Pais: University of Coimbra

Journal of Business Ethics, 2021, vol. 168, issue 4, No 1, 677-696

Abstract: Abstract Drawing on the interactionist perspective of innovation and on the sustainable ethical strength framework, the present research examines the moderating role of supervisors’ moral courage to go beyond compliance in the relationships between teamwork quality, team creativity, and team idea implementation. Two field studies, using multi-source and multi-wave data, indicated that teamwork quality was positively related to team idea implementation via team creativity, particularly when team supervisors revealed moral courage to go beyond compliance. When supervisors lacked such courage, teams struggled to develop creative ideas and to implement them. Robustness checks and tests of alternative theoretical explanations indicated that our model and findings are robust. From a theoretical perspective, our findings indicate that, due to its empowering and promotion focused orientation, supervisors’ courage to go beyond compliance has relevance for the teamwork and team innovation domains, playing an important moderating role in defining whether quality teamwork leads to enhanced team creativity and team idea implementation.

Keywords: Teamwork quality; Team innovation; Team creativity; Team idea implementation; Moral courage to go beyond compliance; Leadership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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