The Necessity of Process Justice for Employee Creativity: An Uncertainty Management Perspective

Received:October 15, 2017  Revised:October 15, 2017

Key Words:  interactional justice, procedural justice, perceived uncertainty, creative role identity, psychological safety, employee creativity

Author NameAffiliation
Li-Yun Sun* Macau University of Science and Technology 
Chenwei Li0 San Francisco State University 
Alicia S.M. Leung0 Hong Kong Baptist University 

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Abstract:
      Drawing on uncertainty management theory, this study examines how procedural justice and interactional justice interact to influence employee creativity through creative role identity in uncertain contexts. Multi-source data were collected from 218 supervisor-subordinate dyads from companies located in multiple Chinese cities. We found that procedural justice and perceived uncertainty moderated the direct effect of interactional justice on creative role identity and the indirect effect of interactional justice on employee creativity via creative role identity. The direct and indirect effects were strongest when employees perceived both high procedural justice and high uncertainty. We controlled for the mediating process of employee psychological safety in building and testing the hypotheses. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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