How Followership Boosts Creative Performance as Mediated by Work Autonomy and Creative Self-Efficacy in Higher Education Administrative Jobs

Followership is an important but understudied domain. This study adopted a follower-centric perspective to examine the internal process by which followership affects creative performance via work autonomy and creative self-efficacy. The study employed a 3-wave survey of 341 employees of a Taiwanese...

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Main Authors: Hua-Ling Chiang, Yung-Chih Lien, An-Pan Lin, Ya-Ting Chuang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.853311/full
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description Followership is an important but understudied domain. This study adopted a follower-centric perspective to examine the internal process by which followership affects creative performance via work autonomy and creative self-efficacy. The study employed a 3-wave survey of 341 employees of a Taiwanese university to achieve the research purpose. This study showed that effective followership (Time 1) is positively associated with employees’ work autonomy (Time 1) and creative self-efficacy (Time 2). Work autonomy and creative self-efficacy mediate the relationship between effective followership and creative performance (Time 3). This study’s empirical findings provide an improved way of measuring followership and broaden our understanding of how followership triggers intrinsic motivation to facilitate creative performance.
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spelling doaj.art-916829d4a59342d1a1553ca43e6cdcf52022-12-22T00:35:17ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-05-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.853311853311How Followership Boosts Creative Performance as Mediated by Work Autonomy and Creative Self-Efficacy in Higher Education Administrative JobsHua-Ling Chiang0Yung-Chih Lien1An-Pan Lin2Ya-Ting Chuang3Department of International Business, College of Management, National Taiwan University, Taipei, TaiwanDepartment of International Business, College of Management, National Taiwan University, Taipei, TaiwanDepartment of Civic Education and Leadership, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, TaiwanOffice of Administrative Affairs, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, TaiwanFollowership is an important but understudied domain. This study adopted a follower-centric perspective to examine the internal process by which followership affects creative performance via work autonomy and creative self-efficacy. The study employed a 3-wave survey of 341 employees of a Taiwanese university to achieve the research purpose. This study showed that effective followership (Time 1) is positively associated with employees’ work autonomy (Time 1) and creative self-efficacy (Time 2). Work autonomy and creative self-efficacy mediate the relationship between effective followership and creative performance (Time 3). This study’s empirical findings provide an improved way of measuring followership and broaden our understanding of how followership triggers intrinsic motivation to facilitate creative performance.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.853311/fulleffective followershipwork autonomycreative self-efficacycreative performancetrait activation theory
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effective followership
work autonomy
creative self-efficacy
creative performance
trait activation theory
title How Followership Boosts Creative Performance as Mediated by Work Autonomy and Creative Self-Efficacy in Higher Education Administrative Jobs
title_full How Followership Boosts Creative Performance as Mediated by Work Autonomy and Creative Self-Efficacy in Higher Education Administrative Jobs
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title_full_unstemmed How Followership Boosts Creative Performance as Mediated by Work Autonomy and Creative Self-Efficacy in Higher Education Administrative Jobs
title_short How Followership Boosts Creative Performance as Mediated by Work Autonomy and Creative Self-Efficacy in Higher Education Administrative Jobs
title_sort how followership boosts creative performance as mediated by work autonomy and creative self efficacy in higher education administrative jobs
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work autonomy
creative self-efficacy
creative performance
trait activation theory
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