Zhanying Ou

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the influence of interpersonal harmony on employee creativity in China and found that the harmony enhancement motive had a positive relationship with creativity mediated by creative effort, while the disintegration avoidance motive had negative relationship with creative effort.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors view knowledge-worker teams as open systems that are directly affected by changes in the external environment, and they propose and demonstrate that knowledge worker teams should engage in two team processes, namely, de-dependence on established team experts and new knowledge acquisition, to achieve high innovation performance.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors examined newcomer-supervisor exchange as an antecedent of perceived insider status of newcomers, which in turn facilitates their social adjustment and task mastery during organizational entry, and explored incumbent support as a boundary condition for these effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors view work teams as open systems that need to directly address environmental challenges to survive, and propose that when facing environmental challenges, work teams adapt to them.