Exploring the Effects of Positive/Negative Group Affective Tone, and Leader's Network Structures on Team Creativity

摘要

The study explores an unanswered question in literature-analysis of the relationship between team affect, team creativity, and leader's network structures. To add rigor to our results, we introduced team types such as IS development teams, and IS maintenance teams. It is a long-standing question how to deal with the effects of group affective tone on team creativity. Additionally, we considered another exciting factor such as leader's network structures in their teams. For this purpose, we considered leader's centrality and structural holes. The empirical results with 50 teams from IS companies in South Korea revealed that in the IS development teams, negative group affective tone is positively related to team creativity. In contrast, in the IS maintenance teams, negative group affective tone is negatively related to team creativity. In addition, we found that leaders' centrality has a negative effect on team creativity, and that leaders' structural holes have a positive influence on team creativity.