Poster - Narcissim and Creativity

How Narcissism, Promotion criteria, and empowering leadership jointly influence creativity through diverse information searching: An expectancy perspective

List the hypotheses presented in this paper.

H1:

Promotions based on relative performance and empowering leadership moderate the relationship between narcissism and diverse information searching, such that the relationship is strongest when both are high.

H2a:

Diverse information searching is positively related to radical creativity.

H2b:

Diverse information searching is positively related to incremental creativity.

H3a:

Promotions based on relative performance and empowering leadership moderate the indirect relationship between narcissism and radical creativity via diverse information searching, such that the relationship is strongest when both are high.

H3b:

Promotions based on relative performance and empowering leadership moderate the indirect relationship between narcissism and incremental creativity via diverse information searching, such that the relationship is strongest when both are high.

Draw the conceptual model

What are the implications of this paper?

Narcissism can be transformed into creativity when organizations provide empowering leadership and performance-based promotion systems.

What are the results of this paper?

Narcissism leads to more diverse information searching and creativity, but only when empowering leadership and performance-based promotions are high.

What stands out in the methodology of this paper?

The study uses survey data from team leaders and members, measuring multiple variables (narcissism, leadership, information search, and creativity) to test a moderated mediation model.