QUIZ NO.

Zoha Khalid
S17BBAH090
 Quiz No.1

A. Title page

0. Title of paper: The Effects of Supervisor’s Organizational Embodiment and

Organizational Identification on the LMX-Creativity Relationship

 Journal Name: South Asian Journal of Management Sciences,

 Issue: 2019
 Page numbers: 99 to 115

Abstract

1. Purpose, Method, Results:

At the intersection between psychology and human resources management, this
study is conducted to attain two objectives. First, it aims at investigating the indirect
relationship of leader-member exchange (LMX) relationships and creativity via
organizational identification. Second, differences in LMX-creativity relationship via
organizational identification are explored from a trajectory that highlights the
moderating role of supervisor’s organizational embodiment. This study adopts a time-
lagged data collection design. Participants, enrolled in the sample, are 411 subordinates,
who are attached with 142 supervisors from Pakistan. Mediating role of organizational
identification (OI) between LMX and creativity was confirmed by results. The moderating
effect of the supervisor’s organizational embodiment (SOE) on the indirect relationship
between LMX and creativity via organizational identification.

A. Introduction:
2. Importance of main/key variable
 LMX, creativity, organizational identification, supervisor’s organizational
embodiment.
3. What has been done?

Creativity comprises original, practical, and novel thinking ability of employees. Creative
employees are mandatory for any organization to achieve a competitive advantage in a
dynamic business environment (Subramanian, Rahe, Nagadevara, & Jayachandran, 2016).
Recent work on creativity emphasizes the need to analyze the role of underlying paths of
interpersonal relationship between leader and follower to produce creative work.

4. What authors of paper are doing?

Researchers have pointed out that work-related ex-change relationships serve as a

significant predictor of creative problem-solving ability, it is pertinent to mention here
that a dearth of systematic theoretical foundation for creativity in social networking is
still there and requires further attention

5. Hypothesis of the study

Hypothesis 1: The quality of LMX and creativity are positively related.
Hypothesis 2: The quality of LMX and organizational identification are positively related.
Hypothesis 3: Organizational identification and creativity are positively related.
Hypothesis 4: Organizational identification mediates the effect of the quality of LMX on
creativity.
Hypothesis 5: SOE moderates the effect of the quality of LMX on creativity via
organizational identification such that creativity is high when SOE is high.

B. Literature Review
8. The theory used for argumentation
Social Identity Theory