In the increasingly fierce international competition, if an enterprise wants to stand out, it must have a new marketing strategy, advanced production technology, scientific management methods, and so on. Without the ability of continuous innovation, the enterprise will be more and more difficult to move forward. The enterprise is the market subject of innovation, but the employee is the subject of innovation. Employee creativity is the physical manifestation of enterprise innovation. For managers and organizations, it is important to improve the enthusiasm of employees, fully mobilize their enthusiasm, and maximize the efficiency of enterprise management. As a result, enhancing employee creativity by stimulating their inner initiative from the perspective of individual employees is a particularly important topic in management practice that deserves in-depth investigation. Thus self-leadership, a bottom-up management approach, emerged.
Therefore, the main contents of this study are divided into the following categories based on a systematic review and analysis of existing studies: what is the research context and internal connection of employee creativity in management, and how does self-leadership influences employee creativity through job reshaping. In this study, 348 valid questionnaires were collected by using the method of questionnaire survey.SPSS23.0 and AMOS26.0 statistical software were used for empirical analysis of the sample data. The obtained data had good validity and reliability. Self-leadership positively affects job remodeling; Job remolding positively affects employees' creativity; Job remodeling serves as a go-between in the connection among self-leadership and creative performance.
From the management experiences as well as the integration of existing literature, this research on the interaction mechanism between self-guidance and employee creativity has been enriched and expanded by this study. It is a useful exploration and complement to the reasons that influence employee creativity, and also provides theoretical and practical suggestions for enterprises to stimulate and guide employee creativity. At the same time, this study also offers management practices to enhance the positive effect of self-leadership on employees' creativity: (1) Pay attention to improving employees' self-leadership; (2) To moderate decentralization, strengthen structural and social work resources input; (3) Stimulate and enhance employees' enthusiasm for job remodeling.
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