In today’s rapidly changing environment, employee creativity is important for organizations to have competitive advantages for an organizational innovation, survival and long term success. Consequently, to examine how organizations can foster employee creativity can be extremely valuable to...

Humor long has been recognized as a mechanism for dealing with life’s problems and situational difficulties. Specifically, researchers have found that a sense of humor provides health benefits by generating social laughter, psychological benefits by venting anger and frustration and coping...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether negative emotions mediate the relationship between supervisor rudeness and subordinates' retaliatory reactions and how the reactions to supervisor rudeness differ between US Americans and Koreans and between in-group and out-group...

We theorized and tested the conditions under which cognitive team diversity is positively related to individual team member creativity. Hierarchical linear modeling results using 316 employees on 68 teams from Chinese companies indicated that a team member’s creative self-efficacy moderated...