Article Abstract
Heightened competition within and across organizations compels leaders to set inflexibly high standards and to demand creative performance from their employees. Considering recent research on the interpersonal approach to perfectionism and anger expression, we predicted that leaders' perfectionism combined with their anger expression would threaten employees' psychological safety and creative effort that, in turn, would diminish their creative performance. To test our predictions, we designed three multimethod studies: (1) a preregistered memory reconstruction study, (2) a preregistered laboratory experiment, and (3) a multi-wave and multi-source field study. We found convergent evidence that leaders' anger expressions exacerbate the negative indirect influence of their perfectionism on employees' creative performance via psychological safety and creative effort. We conclude by discussing the interpersonal consequences of leader perfectionism in the workplace.
Journal of Organizational Behavior, August 2024
About the researcher
Gamze Koseoglu is a senior lecturer in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
She is the Program Director for the Master of Management (General), Master of Management (Human Resources), and Master of Management (Marketing) programs.
Dr. Koseoglu is an Associate Editor of Group and Organizational Management and a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
Dr. Koseoglu earned her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Her research is primarily focused on understanding the contextual factors that influence employee creativity at work. This includes examining the impact of social networks, leadership, and team processes on fostering team creativity, as well as investigating the role of employee neurodiversity on employee creativity and performance. She particularly researches the creativity of employees with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Dr. Koseoglu teaches the graduate-level subjects, Managing Behaviour in Organisations (MGMT90018) and Conflict and Negotiation (MGMT90037), and the doctoral-level subject Advanced Organizational Behaviour (MGMT90197).