When Job Dissatisfaction Leads to Creativity: Encouraging the Expression of Voice

By Jing Zhou, Jennifer M. George. 2001

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Respect as an engine for new ideas: Linking respectful engagement, relational information processing and creativity among employees and teams (2015, background): “to complete the tasks –.04 .66 Eigenvalues 4.21 1.45 % of variance explained 35.13 13.27 many creative ideas that might improve working conditions at work; adapted from Zhou and George, 2001).”
Linking Empowering Leadership and Employee Creativity: The Influence of Psychological Empowerment, Intrinsic Motivation, and Creative Process Engagement (2010, methodology): “Employee creativity was measured with a 13-item creativity scale ( .91) developed by Zhou and George (2001) and was completed by supervisors.”
Openness to Experience and Team Creativity: Effects of Knowledge Sharing and Transformational Leadership (2019, methodology): “Drawing from Zhou and George (2001), three items were adapted to measure idea generation and four items to measure idea development.”
Cross-Level Influences of Empowering Leadership on Citizenship Behavior (2017, background): “…research arguing for the “energizing effects of cognitive dissonance” (Wicklund & Brehm, 1976: 86) and, closer to the proactive behavior domain, with work demonstrating that negative aspects of the social environment may have motivating, rather than demotivating, influences (Zhou & George, 2001).”
Revisiting How and When Perceived Organizational Support Enhances Taking Charge (2015, background): “…actions) tend to be greater when employees are in an organizational environment that rewards them for taking charge (Zhou & George, 2001), have a supervisor who they perceive as open to taking charge (Ashford, Rothbard, Piderit, & Dutton, 1998; Detert & Burris,…”
Leadership and creativity in higher education (2015, methodology): “Professors were asked to rate their PhD students’ creativity at work using a 13-item scale from Zhou and George (2001). Example items are ‘My student.”
Change-oriented behavior: A meta-analysis of individual and job design predictors (2015, neutral): “…Gwinner, & Meuter, 2001; Choi, 2007; Seppälä, Lipponen, Bardi, & Pirttilä‐Backman, 2012; Van Dyne et al., 2008), personal initiative (Frese & Fay, 2001), and creative performance (Farmer, Tierney, & Kung-McIntyre, 2003; Zhou & George, 2001) as examples of change-oriented employee behaviors.”
Climate for Creativity: A Quantitative Review (2007, background): “In addition to these objective job characteristics, more subjective features of the job, for example job satisfaction, vis-à-vis mood effects (Madjar, Oldham, & Pratt, 2002; Zhou & George, 2001), may also act as moderators.”
I can do it, so can you: The role of leader creative self-efficacy in facilitating follower creativity (2016, methodology): “Follower creativity was evaluated by leaders with a 13-item scale developed by Zhou and George (2001).”