I love to do it or "I can do it?" Competing mechanisms in explaining creative deviance

Leaders' responses to creative deviance: Differential effects on subsequent creative deviance and creative performance

“…This scale has shown acceptable levels of reliability (α = .81 in Lin, Law, & Chen, 2012, and α = .84 in Lin, Wong, & Fu, 2012). We asked employees to rate the items about their creative deviance in the past two months.…”

“…Employees with different personality structures may have different tendencies to engage in creative deviance (Lin, Law, & Chen, 2012;Lin, Wong, & Fu, 2012) and may also react differently to leaders' responses. For instance, promotion-oriented employees may be quite sensitive and attuned to positive responses (e.g.…”

“…Creative deviance scale (Lin, Law, & Chen, 2012;Lin, Wong, & Fu, 2012; the original scales used in this study are in Chinese). Instruction: In the last two months, when my immediate supervisor rejected some of my new ideas:…”

“…Criscuolo, Salter, & Ter Wal, 2014;Mainemelis, 2010), national-level (e.g., Cullen & Parboteeah, 2014), or employee-level variables (eg. Criscuolo et al, 2014;Lin, Law, & Chen, 2012), we develop and test a model that is focused on the role leaders play in creative deviance. Furthermore, while past deviance research has focused on deviant workplace behaviors that are inherently positive or negative (Criscuolo et al, 2014;Warren, 2003), we contribute to deviance research a rigorous study of a deviant workplace behavior that is not inherently positive or negative, but rather, leaders' responses to it can make employees more or less creative and more or less creatively deviant in the future.…”

Are narcissists always bad apples? The relationship between employee narcissism and creative deviance

“…People with pro-self-motivation have been noted to enact creative deviance ( Shukla and Kark, 2020 ). Thus, integrating narcissism theory ( Emmons, 1987 ) and trait activation theory ( Tett and Burnett, 2003 ), pro-self-motivated narcissists may feel that “they can” generate creative ideas (display high levels of creative self-efficacy), and this may further inspire narcissists to engage in creative deviance ( Lin and Chen, 2012 ). In previous studies, creative self-efficacy is a malleable mindset and can be seen as an important mediator between individual dispositions and creative performance ( Gong et al, 2009 ).…”